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Mick Lynch (centre), general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) joins members of the union in a protest at Old Palace Yard outside the Palace of Westminster, London, to mark the anniversary of the sacking of hundreds of P&O workers
TORY ministers have given rogue bosses a “free pass to act with impunity,” the TUC warns today on the first anniversary of P&O’s unlawful mass sacking of nearly 800 workers.
The intervention comes as the union body publishes a new report revealing that the government has failed to act on any of the four ways in which the disgraced ferry firm broke the law.
As a result, a similar scandal could be “on the cards,” said TUC general secretary Paul Nowak.
Labour’s long-promised Act has scraped through the Lords. While the law marks a step forward, its lack of collective rights leaves workers short-changed — and sets the stage for a renewed campaign for an Employment Rights Bill #2, argues TONY BURKE
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’