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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn gives a speech at the TUC Congress in Brighton
LABOUR will set up a brand new employment rights ministry alongside a new workers’ protection agency to bang up bad bosses, Jeremy Corbyn pledged at TUC Congress today.
The Labour leader said the new agency would have “real teeth,” including powers “to enter workplaces and bring prosecutions on workers’ behalf.”
He told delegates in Brighton: “If you’re a worker with a boss who makes you work extra hours for no pay or forces you into dangerous situations, you deserve a government that’s on your side and ready to step in to support you.”
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR