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NEW anti-trade union legislation coming into force on Friday is “unfair, unnecessary and speaks only to the government’s malevolence” towards worker representatives, the Institute of Employment Rights (IER) warned today.
The left-wing think tank condemned moves to allow the certification officer the power to impose a significant levy on unions.
The charge, capped at 2.5 per cent of a union’s total income, is to cover the regulator’s own costs.
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
Labour’s long-promised Act has scraped through the Lords. While the law marks a step forward, its lack of collective rights leaves workers short-changed — and sets the stage for a renewed campaign for an Employment Rights Bill #2, argues TONY BURKE
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