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…Read more…
Samsung chemicals endanger workers’ lives
Former Samsung worker’s death from cancer at 22 kicked off campaignRead more…
IndustriALL – Training for Gender Equality in Southeast Asia
Better maternity protection is a main campaign goal for this year’s World Day for Decent WorkRead more…
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…Read more…
Unions remember workers who died for the Rio Olympics
Eleven dead and no word of comfort or sympathy from the IOC…Read more…
Ecuador’s Popular Unity backs teachers’ union
Marxist-Leninists versus Rafael Correa in a political showdownRead more…
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,…Read more…
South Korea: A government at war with democracy
They are gradually reducing the right of peaceful assembly to a privilege…Read more…
EU must hold Turkish president accountable for press freedom violations
We can’t remain silent while journalists are being arrested by dozensRead more…
Erdogan loyalists attack the media in wake of failed coup
To denounce the deterioration of the situation is not enough. The international community must act…Read more…
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…Read more…
The Labour Act, another step in the flexibilisation of French Labour Law
14 July 2016
By Professor Sylvaine Laulom, Director of Institut d’études du travail de Lyon, the University Lumière Lyon 2
Finally, the long road towards the ‘El Khomri’ Law, named after the…Read more…
The impact of the crisis on collective bargaining in manufacturing in Portugal: between resilience and decentralisation
08 July 2016
By Isabel Távora, University of Manchester; and Pilar González, University of Porto
In the fifth article of our EU Comparative Series, academics from the University of Manchester and…Read more…
On the edge of a paradigm variation? Changing Joint Regulation and Labour Market Policy in Italy during the Crisis
08 July 2016
By Sabrina Colombo and Ida Regalia, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali e Politiche, Università degli studi di Milano
In the fourth piece from our EU Comparative Series, Italian academics…Read more…
Women’s Labour and Trade Unionism – A Dangerous Combination?
By Rebecca Zahn and Nicole Busby
06 July 2016
Women have played a key role in the British trade union movement since its inception. After all, the first strike for equal pay was organised by…Read more…
Strikes at Walmart stores in China spread
We struck to get our voices heard but we understand that striking is just a tool, not our goal…Read more…
USi at the GLI International Summer School 4th July – 8th July 2016
All this week, USi will be reporting from the Global Labour Institute (GLI) International Summer School at Northern College, Barnsley. The Summer School, now in its fifth year, is described as…Read more…
A Manifesto For Today’s World Of Work
01 July 2016
By Carolyn Jones, Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC
THE world of work has changed and with it the nature and role of the workforce. For Britain’s 31 million workers, many of the…Read more…
New strategy to tackle labour exploitation complicated by immigration and modern slavery focus
28 June 2016
By Dr Alex Balch, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, The University of Liverpool
As the dust settles after the EU referendum, the implications of Brexit for…Read more…
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23 June 2016
By Michelle Stanistreet, General Secretary of the NUJ
The Investigatory Powers Bill, which will be debated in the House of Lords on Monday 27 June, contains a…Read more…