Comment: Qatar 2022: There should be no World Cup without workers’ rights
Following the Emir of Qatar’s visit to Britain last week, Ruwan Subasinghe shines a light on the 2022 World Cup host’s appalling record on workers’ rights.
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TUC: Latest employment laws will “make it easier to sack people” and “not save a single job”
The TUC have said the government’s latest employment reforms “will not save a single job” but instead “make it easier to sack people”.
Osborne’s latest manufacturing, workers’ rights and productivity fail
The UK’s manufacturing sector took another big hit last week when official data showed manufacturing had performed much worse than predicted.
“The guilty should be brought to justice” – union blacklist baron grilled by Parliament
Ian Kerr, who ran the trade union blacklist, dished the dirt on his company’s activities in evidence to the Scottish affairs committee in Parliament today.
Calderón’s parting shot at Mexico’s workers cements his regressive legacy
Outgoing neoliberal President Felipe Calderón’s trade union reforms have severely damaged the rights of workers in Mexico.
“We must all be up to this challenge together”: A new social compact for Europe
As austerity takes its toll right across Europe, the European TUC argues for a new direction, based on solidarity and safeguarding Europe’s social model in law.
Workers’ rights are being abused all around the world
It is not just in the developing world where trade union rights are at risk, according to a report by the International Trade Union Confederation.
Memo to EU leaders: If austerity fails, it’s austerity’s fault – not that of workers’ rights
Europe needs an alternative vision and this has to be done by putting faith in people, rather putting faith in the “elites” and destroying social rights.
Bringing sack-happy Mayr-Melnhof Packaging to heel
Tony Burke, Assistant General Secretary of Unite, writes about Liverpool workers’ fight for justice against sack-happy Mayr-Melnhof Packaging.
London 2012: The Rio Tinto saga continues
After last week’s protests, the United Steelworkers file a formal complaint with London’s Olympic organisers against Rio Tinto’s role in the 2012 games.