The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
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Now the EHRC is hit by Tory ‘crony-virus’ too
The latest equality watchdog appointments have little reason to give even slim assurance to the people it’s meant to protect, writes RAOUL WALAWALKER
Trade unionists are mobilising to support Cuban workers and public services, amid escalating US pressure on the socialist island. RONAN OGILVY explains
The defence secretary’s resignation reveals not a split over principle but a dispute over pace of military spending, as Britain’s political Establishment unites behind deeper Nato commitments, argues NICK WRIGHT
The ceasefire may have halted the fighting for now, but years of economic warfare and recent military attacks have left millions of Iranians facing hardship and uncertainty, says Codir’s RUBEN BRETT
The struggle for Palestinian freedom has become a defining issue for everyone committed to justice, democracy and peace, says PETER LEARY ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
IN A fully functional democracy, it would be expected, if not imperative, that an equality and human rights watchdog should be free from political bias.
Doubts over this independence at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) resurfaced two weeks ago with the appointment of an old friend of the Prime Minister as one of its new commissioners.
Other doubts sprung up this week too, after a separate new commissioner, chosen by Equalities Minister Liz Truss, was reported as having spoken against “modern feminism.”
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