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Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the TUC
BORIS JOHNSON is rushing into post-Brexit trade deals with countries who violate workers’ rights, trade unions and Labour warned today.
They said that the government was neglecting its supposed commitment to human and labour rights in its scramble to strike free trade agreements with non-European Union nations as part of the “global Britain” brand.
The TUC and its international counterpart, the ITUC, pointed out that a third of the deals already struck are with countries that abuse workers’ rights.
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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
