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workers rights

The BHS scandal shows that we need workers on boards

Prem Sikka
27 May, 2016

Corporations are being run entirely in the interests of executives and shareholders, with little concern for anyone else

The EU ‘has played a crucial role in promoting LGBT rights’

17 May, 2016

Ian McKellen has celebrated the EU’s record of preventing anti-LGBT discrimination

Without the EU, a million extra people would be working excessive hours

Paul Sellers
10 May, 2016

The UK used to be the long hours capital of Europe and it could be again, TUC research shows

EU health and safety laws have protected workers’ rights, says TUC

Kam Gill
28 April, 2016

‘We would be foolhardy to risk losing this significant success for workers

The Trade Union Bill is still an attack on our movement, but it could have been so much worse

Dave Prentis
28 April, 2016

Dave Prentis, General Secretary of UNISON, reflects on the union fightback against a bill that should never have existed

Unions representing 4 million workers are backing EU membership

26 April, 2016

Alan Johnson hails ten unions’ support for workers’ rights in Europe

Junior doctors contract driving medical students away from the NHS

Niamh NĂ­ Mhaoileoin
22 April, 2016

As junior doctors prepare for an all-out strike, 94 per cent of medical students feel less enthusiastic about working in the NHS

Government backtracks on Trade Union Bill as peers threaten rebellion

Silkie Cragg Hannah Reed
20 April, 2016

U-turn on the proposal to stop payroll collection of subscriptions is a major victory for unions

Michael Gove is wrong – we’re better off in the European Union

Glenis Wilmott
19 April, 2016

As new EU laws on tax avoidance, data protection and terrorism show

Government drops trade union bill proposal on check-off

19 April, 2016

Union leaders welcome change but remain deeply opposed to the bill

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