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Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC speaking at the TUC congress at the ACC Liverpool, September 11, 2023
TUC leader Paul Nowak will call for workers to elect a Labour government as he addresses the union federation’s Midlands conference today.
TUC analysis shows that 500,000 workers across the Midlands — one in eight — is “trapped” in insecure work.
With an election likely this year, workers’ rights are “on the ballot paper,” the TUC says.
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
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
