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MORE than two-thirds of chief executives at British companies are concerned about human rights and labour rights issues in their supply chains, research has suggested.
According to a survey commissioned by procurement consultancy Proxima, concern is highest in the construction sector and in leisure and hospitality, all at 77 per cent.
Retail, and the food and beverage manufacturing sector, follow at 72 per cent and 70 per cent respectively.
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians