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What is Ed Miliband thinking?
10 July 2013
By Roger Jeary
Severing ties with the trade union movement will not benefit the Labour Party, and will only make Ed Miliband look more right wing.
Experts call for a united campaign for better health and safety at work
04 July 2013
By Janet Newsham
Trade unionists, campaigners and academics called for an end to the deregulation of health and safety yesterday at Institute of Employment Rights' conference Health and Safety at Work 2013.
Why should MPs get a better pay deal than other civil servants?
03 July 2013
By Roger Jeary
MPs might well say a rise in their pay is unacceptable, but they do so in case their salaries cost them votes, not because of the evident injustice of raising their salaries at a time of massive public sector spending cuts…
Health and safety: Good for the people, good for the country, it's even good for business, say experts
20 June 2013
By Sarah Glenister, IER staff
A comprehensive report on the presentations and arguments given by some of the UK's leading experts at the Institute of Employment Rights' health and safety conference in London.
Business leaders eager to drown out voices of workers?
13 June 2013
By Sarah Glenister, IER staff
The Institute of Directors, which one cannot fail to notice has the ear of the Department of Business, has released statistics showing the majority of its members wish for strike action to be banned in a wide range of industries.
"Not a proper society": the privatisation of law and justice
07 June 2013
By John Medhurst
The privatisation plans of the Coalition are becoming disturbingly close to the plot of a dystopian science fiction novel.
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