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This latest attack will leave millions of working people priced out of the legal system
31 July 2013
By Carolyn Jones, Director of the IER
On Sunday night I sat down to watch the new Channel 4 drama, The Mill – an historic depiction of real working life in the Northern cotton mills of 1833. It was a shocking insight into our recent history and a timely reminder of why workplace regulations were originally introduced.
Another political attack on free speech
19 July 2013
By Keith Ewing, President of the IER
The Battle of Falkirk is a symptom of a bitter civil war in the Labour party. On the one side are the cavaliers, the Blairite faction led by Progress, a well-funded campaign group. On the other side are the roundheads, a trade union grounded interest, committed to return the Party to its roots. Both sides seem equally determined to prevail.
It's grim down south: How the North-South divide is a big fat myth
19 July 2013
By Megan Dobney, Regional Secretary of Southern and Eastern TUC (SERTUC)
Contrary to expectations workers in every corner of the country are in the same boat.
Zero-hour contracts: bad news for workers, employers, service-users and the state
19 July 2013
By Christine Lewis, Unison national officer
Zero-hours contracts hurt everyone, but particularly the vulnerable in our society including low-paid workers and care services users.
What the Coalition wishes it could ignore: the hidden scandal of zero-hours contracts
11 July 2013
By Sarah Glenister, IER staff
It's been one of the most important employment law issues to hit the news this year, yet no Conservative MPs even turned up to debate zero-hour contracts in Parliament on Tuesday (09 July 2013).
What have the unions ever done for us?
10 July 2013
Production company Manic Studios have released a video asking, 'What have the unions ever done for us?'
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