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THE Scottish TUC renewed its call for the abolition of anti-trade union laws yesterday as employment rights took centre stage at its national congress.
Delegates called for “positive individual and collective workers’ rights to organise, to strike and to bargain” and many contrasted attacks on union rights by Westminster with a measure of engagement from the Scottish government.
The STUC also reaffirmed support for a living wage for all workers and a campaign to achieve a minimum wage of £10 per hour.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Congress can chart a bold course that will force meaningful transformation for the people of Scotland