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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer speaks at the Unite Policy Conference at the Brighton Centre in Brighton, West Sussex. Picture date: Thursday July 13, 2023.
Cabinet Office sets out plan for bringing services like cleaning and security back in-house
SIR KEIR STARMER ducked questions on public ownership but promised action against outsourcing and repeal of some anti-trade union laws at Unite’s policy conference today.
The Labour leader took questions after a speech extolling the virtues of partnership between “workers and business, politics and people,” claiming he would tackle low pay through undefined “fair work agreements” — at least in the social care sector.
The jobs of the future were “slipping through our fingers” due to Tory dithering, he argued, but he also asserted that “business gets this” and was equally committed to a new economic settlement — despite Unite research showing record corporate profits are the key driver of runaway inflation.
Megapicket to shut down Birmingham’s refuse sites
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
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
