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Victory in the Court of Appeal
18 March 2011
Keith Ewing
The recent decision of the Court of Appeal on the right to strike in cases involving Aslef and RMT is a major triumph for the British trade union movement in its battle to restore trade union rights.
Cable's 'Employers' Charter' incites bosses to take advantage of workers' vulnerability
3 February 2011
Keith Ewing
In the same week that the governor of the Bank of England told us inflation-adjusted wages were falling in a manner unseen since the 1920s, Vince Cable is inciting bosses to take advantage of workers’ vulnerability, by telling them in his charter that they have the right to ask their workers to take a pay cut, and to contact women on maternity leave about when they are planning to return.
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.
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