20 January 2016

The latest raft of amendments to the Trade Union Bill have been published, largely by Liberal Democrat peers Lord Stoneham of Droxford and Baroness Burt of Solihull. They have proposed the following changes to rebalance the Bill to reduce the burden and injustice on trade unions:

20 January 2016

In a new briefing from the Institute of Employment Rights, Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC examine how there is a "severe tension at the heart of the neo-liberal project", which leads to international law being eclipsed by corporate interests.

19 January 2016

Roger Godsiff, MP for Birmingham Hall green, is set to ask the Conservative government if it continues to support the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal – part of a proposed EU settlement – in the light of breaking news that the US government is being sued by a Canadian infrastructure company for rejecting a pipeline that was to bring Canadian tar sands oil down through the US.

19 January 2016

Lord Monks has proposed an amendment to the Trade Union Bill to remove a dangerous statutory instrument, which would allow the Secretary of State to treat any organisation or worker funded wholly or partly from public funds and that performs functions that could be considered to be "of a public nature" to be treated as a "public service" with the regard to the Bill's restrictions on the check-off system.

15 January 2016

Please see poster below for details of our Spring Rally in conjunction with the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom. The event is free and we hope to see you there!

15 January 2016

The Lords has proposed amendments to the Trade Union Bill to reduce the impact on trade unions, the most significant of which include: