workers rights
Union membership increased by 59,000 to 6.5 million in 2012
Trade Union membership rose by 59,000 to 6.5 million last year, according to a report by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills report published today.
Blacklisted workers deserve a larger audience than is currently being granted
The image of union activist George Tapp lying on a Manchester road with two broken legs and blood pouring from his head following a vicious hit and run during an anti-blacklist demonstration last week has shocked many.
Boris Johnson’s agenda for Europe could be a social and environmental disaster for London
Boris's free trade agenda for Europe could be a social and environmental disaster for London and the rest of the UK.
Boris Johnson: wrong on ‘sloth’, right about management
It's interesting that, in his column for today's Telegraph, Boris Johnson has cited the German economy as the measuring stick against which Britain should compare itself.
Brand image won’t prevent labour abuses, but human rights will
Fundamental labour rights and protections should not be optional, applicable only to the rich but must be a central part of our labour markets, for compromises create cracks and cracks lead to catastrophe.
Bangladesh garment worker tragedy is ‘mass industrial slaughter’
Since 2005, more than 1,000 textile workers in Bangladesh have died in fires and building collapses. Thousands of people, many of them young women work in appalling and unsafe conditions in factories which supply western countries and High Street stores with cheap clothing.