TORY plans to make unfairly sacked workers pay to take their cases to an employment tribunal will allow rogue bosses to “ride roughshod over staff,” the TUC warned today.
The government announced today that it is holding new consultations on the introduction of fees for the right to have access to an employment tribunal.
If the plan goes ahead it will be the second time that the government has attempted to block workers’ access to justice by making it unaffordable.
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR


