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BOSSES who blacklist workers should face “criminal penalties,” according to a Manifesto for Labour Law unveiled yesterday.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell and shadow trade unions minister Ian Lavery were due to speak last night at the launch of the manifesto, which was compiled by the Institute of Employment Rights in response to Labour’s Workplace 2020 consultation.
Other recommendations include the formation of a ministry of labour and reinstituting sectoral collective bargaining across the economy.
NICK TROY lauds the young staff at a hotel chain and cinema giant who are ready to take on the bosses for their rights
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR