Labour’s achievements this week: Lifting 450,000 children out of poverty and delivering workers’ rights
Change doesn’t happen overnight, yet slowly and surely, this government is delivering after 14 years of Tory austerity
workers rights
Unison slams Reform for ‘disastrous plans’ to scrap employment rights
“The millionaires calling the shots in Reform don’t think those putting in a hard day’s graft deserve basic rights or fair pay.”
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill passes through Parliament-Delivering biggest upgrade in workers’ rights in a generation
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the development marked a “major victory for working people in every part of the country”.
Kemi Badenoch says minimum wage shouldn’t go any higher as Tories declare war on workers
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.
TUC warns Tory plan to leave the ECHR is an attack on workers’ rights
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’.
Achievements of the Labour government this week: From introduction of Hillsborough Law to boosting workers’ rights
This week the government continued with proposals to push through two key pieces of legislation which will have a significantly positive impact.
Mick Whelan: ASLEF is a firm and critical friend of Labour government
Left Foot Forward spoke to the ASLEF general secretary at this year’s TUC Congress
Home Secretary hasn’t met with civil servants union to discuss proposed safe routes policy for migrants
Fran Heathcote, PCS general secretary, called for the government to engage rather than trying to ‘appease Reform’
New employment rights will make defining an employee more important than ever
‘It is now more important than ever to address a surprisingly difficult question: who will be entitled to these employment rights’
Reform’s Andrea Jenkyns attacks workers’ rights and says she doesn’t like trade unions
‘Oh, terrible. People having rights at work!’