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‘All rights to all workers from day one’

Sep 9, 2021By UNITElive

Unite is supporting a new parliamentary bill to be debated in the House of Lords on Friday (September 10) that would give “all rights to all workers from day one”. Lord John Hendy QC’s Status of…Read more…

Sep 9, 2021UNITElive

Safeguards needed on hi-tech work monitoring

Mar 31, 2021By UNITElive

Unite has warned that safeguards must be fully implemented in workplaces to protect workers from the ‘unintended consequences’ of hi-tech monitoring following the promotion of this latest equipment…Read more…

Mar 31, 2021UNITElive

New manifesto defends workers’ rights from Artificial Intelligence

Mar 25, 2021By Dave Prentis blog

UNISON backs the TUC’s warning that employment law is failing to keep pace with the rapid expansion of AI in the workplace

The article New manifesto defends workers’ rights from Artificial…Read more…

Mar 25, 2021Dave Prentis blog

Government ditches workers’ rights review

Jan 28, 2021By UNITElive

Following pressure from Labour and trade unions, the government has taken yet another screeching U-turn after axing a review of EU-derived workers’ rights. Earlier this month, the Financial Times…Read more…

Jan 28, 2021UNITElive

UNISON demands higher human rights standards in PPE

Jan 25, 2021By Dave Prentis blog

‘Our 1.3 million members working in health, local government, education and other public services don’t want to use items at work made by severely exploited workers’

The article UNISON demands…Read more…

Jan 25, 2021Dave Prentis blog

Labour forces vote on workers’ rights

Jan 25, 2021By UNITElive

Labour will today (January 25) force a vote on workers’ rights after reports last week that the government was mulling over plans to rip up employment protections now that the Brexit transition…Read more…

Jan 25, 2021UNITElive

Workers’ rights under threat

Jan 15, 2021By UNITElive

A potential overhaul of workers’ rights post-Brexit is being discussed among Tory ministers, with limits on working hours possibly in the firing line, it has been revealed. The Financial Times (FT)…Read more…

Jan 15, 2021UNITElive

Northumbria Police sign Dying to Work charter to protect terminally ill staff

Jan 8, 2020By Dave Prentis blog

‘Our officers and staff help so many people in their times of need – it’s only right that our organisations do the same’

The article Northumbria Police sign Dying to Work charter to protect…Read more…

Jan 8, 2020Dave Prentis blog

‘Change is coming’

Sep 11, 2019By UNITElive

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn outlined a truly transformative vision of a future for working people under a Labour government in his speech at TUC conference on Tuesday (September 10).   As Corbyn…Read more…

Sep 11, 2019UNITElive

Welcome to the world!

May 7, 2019By UNITElive

Britons welcomed the birth of the latest Royal baby, who arrived just in time for the Bank Holiday on Monday, May 6. While Harry and Meghan will wrestle with many of the same challenges new parents…Read more…

May 7, 2019UNITElive

‘Blatant window dressing’

Mar 6, 2019By UNITElive

Prime Minister Theresa May’s new proposals to protect workers’ rights after Brexit are “meaningless” and “deeply disappointing”, Unite has said.   Announcing the details today (March 6), the PM…Read more…

Mar 6, 2019UNITElive

Don’t be hoodwinked by PM’s promises on workers’ rights, warns UNISON

Mar 5, 2019By Dave Prentis blog

Commenting on the government’s announcement about workers’ rights, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Any guarantees about protecting existing and ensuring future employment rights must be…Read more…

Mar 5, 2019Dave Prentis blog

‘Fobbed off with empty words’

Jan 10, 2019By UNITElive

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and trade unions have rejected a putative olive branch from prime minister Theresa May after it was suggested today (January 10) that the government would support a Labour…Read more…

Jan 10, 2019UNITElive

‘Baby steps at best’

Dec 17, 2018By UNITElive

Amid weeks dominated by prime minister Theresa May’s Brexit woes, the government today (December 17) unveiled measures it would be taking to improve workers’ rights following its much vaunted…Read more…

Dec 17, 2018UNITElive

Regulations bonfire

Sep 20, 2018By UNITElive

Tory Brexiteers and a number of right-wing US organisations – both with access to the upper echelons of their governments – have teamed up to produce a UK/US trade deal blueprint that proposes a…Read more…

Sep 20, 2018UNITElive

“Protect our rights at work after Brexit”

Jan 15, 2018By John's Labour blog

UNISON has been urging activists to send their MP’s this email for the vote tomorrow https://tuc.good.do/euwithdrawalbill/mps/

Lyn has already tweeted that she will be supporting the amendments.

“On Tuesday 16 Jan, MPs vote on whether or not to …Read more…

Jan 15, 2018John's Labour blog

Spirit of the Five lives on

Dec 1, 2017By UNITElive

Forty five years ago, five dockworkers and trade unionists were imprisoned for standing up to a government which, through the new Industrial Relations Act, was inflicting draconian restrictions on…Read more…

Dec 1, 2017UNITElive

‘Rights, rights, rights’

Nov 30, 2017By UNITElive

A clarion call to engage members, employers and politicians on the need to secure an EU exit that works for working people was issued at Unite’s East Midlands Brexit conference yesterday (November…Read more…

Nov 30, 2017UNITElive

Over-regulation is not the problem a post-Brexit Britain would face

Aug 25, 2017By Touchstone blog

Yesterday’s report The Economy After Brexit by Economists For Brexit includes a section by Tim Congdon on EU regulation, essentially blaming all the evils of the British economy on excessive red tape and inferring that our economy could do so much better if it were unshackled from it all. The…Read more…

Aug 25, 2017Touchstone blog

What would it take for trade deals to protect workers’ rights?

Aug 3, 2017By Touchstone blog

Protecting workers’ rights in trade deals is essential to ensure trade is fair. If trade deals don’t contain effective protections for workers’ rights, they just make it easier for companies to locate themselves in countries where wages are lower and workers are less able to resist…Read more…

Aug 3, 2017Touchstone blog
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