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A TUC march in 2012
WORKERS need more and better rights, the trade union movement says today after the government abandoned its planned attack on working hours and holiday pay.
Unions breathed a collective sigh of relief yesterday when Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng signalled that a “review” of legislation on working hours and holiday pay would be shelved following massive labour movement pressure.
But the urgent need to force the government to honour its so far empty pledge to “level up” was put into stark relief when the TUC revealed that a quarter of all workers in Britain – some 7.5 million people – have no protection against unfair dismissal.
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
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
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP