Queen’s Speech focuses on post-Brexit fixes
Over a third of the 26 bills mentioned in the Queen’s speech replace, remove or renew EU measures as others offer a populist stance on ‘law and order’.
After a decade of bailouts, it’s time for business to “bail in” to fight climate and social crisis
Business need to ‘bail in’ to help avert the biggest theats to our way of life. And governments can help them do so.
Leading Democratic Presidential Candidates expected to support much greater union rights
Many of the leading candidates to be the Democratic Presidential nominee are expected to back scrapping non-compete clauses and sectoral collective barganining.
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UK unions urge Johnson to condemn Turkey’s invasion of Syria
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