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HUMAN-rights campaigners and opposition figures warned of a “drastic reimagining of state powers” in the guise of the Emergency Coronavirus Bill announced in Parliament today.
The Bill gives emergency powers to the government to take urgent action on the Covid-19 outbreak.
Tabled by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, the measures are expected to last for two years and will be rushed through the Commons on Monday.
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
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
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare