We heard similar arguments from Tories before when the minimum wage was first introduced, only for them to realise that businesses didn’t collapse and nor was it detrimental to the economy.
The TUC has warned that the Tory plan to withdraw from the (ECHR) ‘isn’t about migration, it’s about dismantling the legal protections that ordinary people rely on every day’.
This week the government continued with proposals to push through two key pieces of legislation which will have a significantly positive impact.
Left Foot Forward spoke to the ASLEF general secretary at this year’s TUC Congress
Fran Heathcote, PCS general secretary, called for the government to engage rather than trying to ‘appease Reform’
‘It is now more important than ever to address a surprisingly difficult question: who will be entitled to these employment rights’
‘Oh, terrible. People having rights at work!’
The Labour MP for North East Hertfordshire urges the government to stop playing it safe and take on the vested interests holding the country back.
To appease corporations, people may raze mountains, divert rivers, clear forests, cover countryside in tarmac and shower subsidies upon them, but they have no loyalty to any place, people or product.
The case was taken on by GMB on behalf of thousands of members who lost their job when the discount store went into administration.
