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TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady (front centre) during a rally in central London in May this year
BRITAIN risks slipping back into 19th-century working conditions as millions of people struggle with insecure employment and earn less than the minimum wage, the TUC warned yesterday.
A new report by the union federation said there are 3.7 million people in insecure work, nearly two million self-employed people are earning under the minimum wage and workers have suffered the longest pay squeeze for 200 years.
Unless the balance of power in the workplace is reset, economic inequality and insecure work will continue to increase, it warned.
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