Trade Union Rights' Publications
Protect the right to strike: kill the bill
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by Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC
Published September 2015
The Trade Union Bill has now passed its second reading and the government is attempting to rush it through parliamentary procedures. Here two leading experts on trade union rights –Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC – publish a short but comprehensive overview of the Trade Union Bill and its implications.
The Conservative Government’s proposed strike ballot thresholds: The challenge to trade unions
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by Professor Ralph Darlington and Dr John Dobson
Published August 2015
According to the authors of this timely report, the government is attempting to rush into law ‘the most sweeping and radical tightening of rules on industrial action since the Thatcher era of the 1980’s’. They warn that such proposals could result in ‘the biggest showdown over industrial relations for a generation’ and go on to drill down into one aspect of the government’s proposals – strike ballots.
Election 2015: What’s at stake for work, pay and trade unions?
 Contributors: Professor Tonia Novitz, University of Bristol Law School; Professor Ozlem Onaran, University of Greenwich; Dr Lydia Hayes, Cardiff University; Carolyn Jones, Institute of Employment Rights; and James Lazou, Unite the Union. Published in March 2015. |
TUPE 2014
 By Richard Arthur Published June 2014 As the author of this timely report notes, ‘The period since 1981 has seen the proliferation of privatisation and contracting out, with a dominant theme being a desire to reduce wages and other workforce-related costs.’ Against this background, TUPE has traditionally provided essential protections for workers. But how effective are those protections following changes introduced in January 2014? |
Reconstruction after the crisis: a manifesto for collective bargaining
 By Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC Published in September 2013 This publication presents an evidence-based policy proposal for the state encouragement of collective bargaining, and particularly sectoral bargaining, as a tried-and-tested means of reducing income inequality and stimulating the sustainable recovery of a strong and resilient economy. |
The political attack on workplace representation - a legal response
 By Alan Bogg & K D Ewing Published June 2013 Legal experts respond to the Tory-led Coalition's attack on worker representation in this timely report. |
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