Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
The Minimum Service Levels Act is dangerous, unjust and must be defeated
We must be prepared to mobilise and build a mass movement against the Tories’ vicious anti-union law, writes Fire Brigades Union leader MATT WRACK
LOUD AND CLEAR: FBU firefighters rally outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh last October
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CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
JOHN PERRY and FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ unpack the latest propaganda attack on Nicaragua, explaining how a clearly biased, US-backed regime-change NGO used a totally unrepresentative sample and survey methodology to get a ridiculous result
THE labour movement is facing one of the most vicious attacks in recent history. The Tories’ Minimum Service Levels Act is the latest in a long line of anti-union laws, taking aim at our right to strike. As we celebrate International Workers’ Day, we must be clear-eyed about what is at stake.
The Westminster government is intent on driving down wages and silencing workers who fight for better pay and conditions. They know that workers’ power lies in our ability to organise in our workplaces and to withhold our labour.
The eight-hour day, better pay, safer conditions, the weekend and paid holiday would not exist unless bosses knew we could stop the workplace. Workers who can’t strike, can’t bargain. And if you’re not bargaining, you’re begging.
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