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LABOUR movement think tank the Institute for Employment Rights (IER) is to open a Scotland division.
The workplace rights specialists, whose Manifesto for Labour Law has been adopted by the shadow cabinet and forms part of the legislative programme proposed by a Jeremy Corbyn government, told a packed Morning Star fringe meeting that “Scotland is not immune to the chronic abuses of employment and trade union rights that plague the UK economy.”
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
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
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