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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
A LEFT-WING Scottish think tank has branded the SNP’s flagship employment programme as “weak, limited and oversold.”
Research published by the Jimmy Reid Foundation today, evaluating the Scottish government’s Fair Work policy, claimed that the previous government has not matched its rhetoric with actions.
Written by Professor Gregor Gall, the report outlines a number of issues with the government’s current set of policies, criticising the lack of compulsion placed upon employers to implement better working conditions.
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
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
