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BRITAIN’s 40 years of “resistance, derision and misrepresentation” of health and safety law is leading to “tragic outcomes in the fight against Covid-19,” the Institute for Employment Rights (IER) revealed yesterday.
According to a report by the institute, Britain has gone from being a leader in the development and support of international labour law to being among the three worst countries in the European Union for the protection of workplace health and safety.
Britain’s record is so bad that it is now on a par with Saudi Arabia, North Macedonia and Cameroon.
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
The Met Police's refusal to act against British nationals accused of war crimes in Gaza is a green light for Israel's genocide, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE