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The Tolpuddle Tree
20 September 2016
By Martin Smith, GMB National Organiser
The labour market faces massive changes in the next ten years – laying down a challenge to the trade union and labour movement to adapt to the new needs and aspirations of working people by developing new forms of collective organisation, campaigning and action.
Now is the time to fight for a new deal for workers
15 September
By Tony Burke, Assistant General Secretary, UNITE
Below is a video of, and the full text for, Tony Burke's speech in favour of Composite Motion 16 at TUC Congress, which supported the repeal of the Trade Union Act and called for a new framework for workers' rights.
Britain’s Workers Feel Stressed And Insecure
13 September 2016
By Carolyn Jones, Director, Institute of Employment Rights
BRITAIN’S 31 million workers are among the most insecure, stressed and unhappiest in Europe.
No wonder! According to the latest report by the Institute of Employment Rights (IER), the evidence is damning.
Byron Hamburgers: When employers fail to do right by migrant employees
16 August 2016
By Don Flynn, Director of the Migrants' Rights Network (MRN)
What else could Byron’s have done? The social media world was awash with attempted defences of the hamburger chain after it collaborated in the arrest of 35 of its migrant workers earlier in July. Our answer is they didn’t have to go along with the shabby act of entrapment of its staff, and they could have done so much more to push back against punitive, anti-worker rules.
The neo-liberal reform of collective bargaining in Spain: its consequences for social dialogue
Miguel Martínez Lucio
10 August 2016
By Carlos J Fernández Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; Rafael Ibáñez Rojo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; and Miguel Martínez Lucio, The University of Manchester, UK
The latest in our EU Comparative Series
This briefing outlines some of the key industrial relations issues in Spain in the light of the major legal reforms since the start of the crisis in 2008, pushed by the Troika and mainly enacted by the right-wing Popular Party (PP) (2011-15) – as well as to an extent the previous Socialist Party (PSOE) in its final years in power (08-11).
Public sector cuts, privatisation and employment rights
18 July 2016
By Bob Kelly
Bob, a delegate at the Institute of Employment Rights' Public Sector Cuts, Privatisation and Employment Rights conference on 05 July 2016, reports back on the event.
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