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UNIONS must take a new blueprint for Scottish employment rights into workplaces to engage with stewards and members, a packed Scottish TUC fringe meeting heard yesterday.
Union leaders including Unite Scotland political officer Jackson Cullinane and Unison’s Peter Hunter gathered to launch the Charter for Employment Rights for Scotland, a new consultation document produced by the Institute of Employment Rights.
Charter co-author Chris McCorkindale, a law lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, said Scotland’s devolved institutions should change their approach to tackling issues where powers are reserved to Westminster.
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
Making sure this Labour government delivers on decent jobs, strong workplace rights and well-funded public services will defeat the easy answers to real frustrations peddled by the far right, writes JOANNE THOMAS
Tackling poverty in Scotland cannot happen without properly funded public services. Unison is leading the debate