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How the ministry of labour will defeat neoliberalism
Today workplaces are hostile environments – but Labour’s new ministry by and for workers will change all that, LAURA PIDCOCK told the Arise festival of left ideas. We run her speech here
THE work of the Institute of Employment Rights (IER) over the last three decades has been essential and remains so today.
It has been advising me in my role as shadow minister for labour, but much more than that, it’s been instrumental in providing the building blocks for a new department in a future Labour government, a ministry of labour, which I believe will be transformative for workers and workplaces.
It’s such an important and exciting part of Labour’s programme and I’m delighted to be heading it up.
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