07 December 2018
By Eileen Turnbull and Harry Chadwick, Shrewsbury 24 Campaign
On Friday 9th November 2018 the Shrewsbury pickets won an important victory in their long struggle to overturn their…Read more…
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07 December 2018
By Eileen Turnbull and Harry Chadwick, Shrewsbury 24 Campaign
On Friday 9th November 2018 the Shrewsbury pickets won an important victory in their long struggle to overturn their…Read more…
12 November 2018
By Sarah Glenister, National Development Officer, Institute of Employment Rights
This week, three education unions will consult their members over taking industrial action in…Read more…
12 November 2018
By Sarah Glenister, National Development Officer, Institute of Employment Rights
Every autumn, for over a decade, employment law experts have gathered for the Institute of…Read more…
12 November 2018
By Sarah Glenister, National Development Officer, Institute of Employment Rights
This week, three education unions will consult their members over taking industrial action in…Read more…
12 November 2018
By Sarah Glenister, National Development Officer, Institute of Employment Rights
Every autumn, for over a decade, employment law experts have gathered for the Institute of…Read more…
26 October 2018
By Paul Scholey and Tony Rippon, Morrish Solicitors
Bellman v Northampton Recruitment Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 2214
Following a recruitment agency’s Christmas party, to which all…Read more…
26 October 2018
By Paul Scholey and Tony Rippon, Morrish Solicitors
Bellman v Northampton Recruitment Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 2214
Following a recruitment agency’s Christmas party, to which all…Read more…
19 October 2018
By John Hendy QC, Professor Keith Ewing and Carolyn Jones
This week has seen ‘gig’ workers and people on zero-hours contracts take a stand against low pay and insecure jobs, with…Read more…
19 October 2018
By John Hendy QC, Professor Keith Ewing and Carolyn Jones
This week has seen ‘gig’ workers and people on zero-hours contracts take a stand against low pay and insecure jobs, with…Read more…
12 October 2018
By Dr Ewan McGaughey, Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, King’s College, London, and research associate at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge
Democratic…Read more…
12 October 2018
By Dr Lydia Hayes, Reader in Law, Cardiff University
The decision of the Court of Appeal in Mencap v Tomlinson-Blake has overturned a decade of progressive decisions at the EAT and…Read more…
06 July 2018
By Phil James, Middlesex University
Too many workers and their families continue to suffer from the failure of their employing organisations to provide safe and healthy working…Read more…
06 July 2018
By David White, University of Liverpool
Thirty years ago today the Piper Alpha oil platform exploded and was engulfed in flames killing 167 people. Only 61 survived in in what remains…Read more…
29 June 2018
By John Hendy QC, IER Chair
The sole justification for the policies of austerity inflicted on most of the peoples of the world has been that there is a structural deficit in the…Read more…
By Larry Cohen, Chair of Our Revolution
It is now clear that enterprise-based organizing and bargaining in the U.S. has a dim future. U.S. workers’ collective bargaining coverage is back to early…Read more…
By Sarah Veale, Institute of Employment Rights
12 June 2018
Legislation giving workers the right to have their union recognised by their employer exists but is weak and little used.
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12 June 2018
By Aristea Koukidaki, The University of Manchester
The structuring of contemporary production methods, often complex and global in scope, creates an environment that is conducive to…Read more…
27 March 2018
By Alex Just, employment and trade union law expert
Friday’s admission by the Metropolitan Police that special branch officers colluded in the blacklisting of construction workers…Read more…
By Janet Newsham, Hazards Campaign
The IER manifesto makes an important contribution in emphasising the importance of collective bargaining. In the Hazards Campaign we know that where workers are…Read more…
12 February 2018
By John Hendy QC, IER Chair and Barrister at Old Square Chambers
It might be hard to imagine that the tedious, barren worthlessness of Matthew Taylor’s Report on ‘Good Work’ could…Read more…