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WORKERS at Clarks footwear have defeated bosses’ attempts to fire and rehire them after strike action and a wave of support from the public, it was announced today.
The workers, who are members of the Community union, are employed at the firm’s distribution centre in Street, Somerset.
They have accepted a deal negotiated through conciliation service Acas.
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
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
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down