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Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner speaking at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, September 22, 2024
ANGELA RAYNER defended the Employment Rights Bill today after being told workers across the country need “immediate” protection from fire and rehire.
The Deputy Prime Minister talked up her trade union roots as she introduced the second reading of the landmark legislation to the Commons.
She however dodged a question when challenged to provide details on when its landmark employment reforms on unfair dismissal would be introduced by Labour MP for Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr Steve Witherden.
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
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
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down