Latest editorial
Barry Gardiner with Unison members who work for Tower Hamlets Council at the event to commemorate its sacking of 4,000 staff to rehire them on worse pay
THE immoral use of fire-and-rehire tactics must end, Labour MP Barry Gardiner said today at an event in support of thousands of workers subjected to the practice.
A year ago, some 4,000 staff at east London’s Tower Hamlets Council were fired and rehired to do the same jobs on worse pay, terms and conditions.
It is just one part of a national scandal which has hit one in 10 workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the TUC.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
