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Keith Ewing
Staff onboard the moored Pride of Kent at the Port of Dover
Features / 17 November 2023
17 November 2023
A Labour government would be wise to implement new recommendations from the ILO that would protect trade unionists and their right to bargain collectively, writes Professor KEITH EWING
(L to R) A postcard of the original Wellesbourne Tree where
Features / 11 July 2023
11 July 2023
New writing has underlined the importance of the 1873 case that victimised striking farmworkers and led to a national outcry — yet aspects of the law used against them remain on the books, writes professor KEITH EWING
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps
Features / 26 August 2022
26 August 2022
The latest plans to suppress industrial action are chilling. They are the hallmark of authoritarian government – and worse, argues Prof KEITH EWING
STATE v WORKERS: Docker Vic Turner (centre), one of the Pent
Features / 30 June 2022
30 June 2022
On the 50th anniversary of the jailing the Pentonville Five, Professor KEITH EWING recalls how British governments, Tory and Labour, have systematically adapted the law to suppress legitimate trade union activity
People hold placards as they attend an RMT rally outside of
Features / 26 June 2022
26 June 2022
Severely rattled by the ongoing rail dispute, the Tories are looking at ways to force ‘minimum servicing,’ agency strike-breakers and a massive increase in damages onto the unions, writes Professor KEITH EWING
Features / 10 April 2022
10 April 2022
Professor KEITH EWING asks what is to be done over the appalling ease with which workers can be ‘fired and replaced’
People take part in a demonstration against the dismissal of
Features / 23 March 2022
23 March 2022
PROFESSOR KEITH EWING looks at how international laws that cover the human rights of the workforce may work in the labour movement's favour in light of the shock mass sacking of 800 seafarers
Features / 18 March 2022
18 March 2022
When global companies are unconstrained by law, they are free to treat their workers like commodities, PROF KEITH EWING explains
Features / 31 July 2020
31 July 2020
Amid the continued unfolding crisis, PROF KEITH EWING revisits the words of Lenin to shed light on what is happening and why
Features / 20 May 2020
20 May 2020
The government has now released its own ‘guidances’ for a return to work by stealth — cutting workers’ representation out of the picture, writes KEITH EWING
Boris Johnson is threatening to effectively ban strike actio
Features / 29 November 2019
29 November 2019