Labour’s long-awaited Employment Rights Bill does not do nearly enough to remove the restraints on trade unions or to give them the powers they need to make a significant difference to the lives of the millions of workers, write KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC

Professor Keith Ewing and Lord John Hendy KC examine the new deal for workers outlined in the King's Speech and what should follow it

We know the legislation intends to compel unions to force a ‘minimum’ number of workers over their own picket line, but how exactly is not clear, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC

by Professor Keith Ewing and Lord Hendy KC

The government is openly committed to meeting the social and financial crisis with attacks on working people rather than reform. That is why we must now launch our own programme, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC

The government's current proposals to force transport unions to effectively break their own strikes may go against legally binding post-Brexit trade agreements — but we cannot fix this in the courts alone, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC

The Transport Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is just the latest extreme blow to union power that comes without any offer of alternative input from workers – this flies in the face of all conventional sense, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC

The task facing the trade unions is enormous, as not only are the employers cutting wages and jobs, the Tories are attempting to violate international law to severely limit workplace organisation, warn PROFESSOR KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC

Prof K D Ewing and Lord John Hendy QC say the pandemic has strengthened the case for an overhaul of workplace rights

The coronavirus has conclusively settled one argument: workers’ rights are a public health issue — and British labour law is not fit for purpose, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY QC

PROF KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY QC explain there can be no simple labour market under the free market: humans are humans, not inanimate commodities to be traded. To overcome this nonsense we need to reinvigorate the concept and practice of collective bargaining