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Resisting Employer Attacks on Workers' Rights
3 February 2011
Keith Ewing
There is a virus sweeping British workplaces — and it’s not the flu virus. It is the virus of naked and unaccountable employer power, with employers now taking advantage of the economic crisis to make workers pay.
Unions Defending Workers: Too Much for the Guardian
22 December 2011
Keith Ewing, IER President
After the vigour and excitement of the student demonstrations against the cuts, today’s Guardian leader on proposed trade union action struck a disappointingly depressing and defeatist note. Has the Daily Mail leader writer been picked up on a free transfer? Has the cold weather affected normally sound judgment?
Every day 60 people die due to work - Health and Safety laws matter
18 October 2010
Steve Tombs and David Whyte
The authors of a new IER book, Regulatory Surrender: death, injury and the non-enforcement of law reject Lord Young’s health and safety proposals, noting they are based on little more than media myths.
Ballot Restrictions to Remain
23 October 2010
Carolyn Jones, IER Director
Despite a sucessful lobby in support of John McDonnell’s Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill, only 89 MPs turned up to support the Bill when it was discussed in Parliament on 22nd October 2010. The Bill aimed to simplify procedures around industrial action ballots and notices.
CBI attacks on Trade Union Rights Rejected
8 October 2010
Keith Ewing, IER President
On the day of last week’s Tube strike the Continuity CBI launched yet another missile in its inimitable version of the class war against working people and their organisations.
Ask your MP to join the Commons debate on 22nd October
23 September 2010
Carolyn Jones, IER Director
The “Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill”: was introduced into Parliament by John McDonnell, MP on 30th June 2010 and will have its second reading on 22nd October. The Bill aims to simplify procedures around industrial action ballots and notices.
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