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[War on Want]
CAMPAIGNERS urged people to lobby peers today over a top-secret “toxic trade deal” being negotiated between the British government and the US.
International Trade Secretary Liz Truss was in Washington recently to negotiate a trade deal with President Donald Trump’s administration.
Anti-poverty charity War on Want said that the deal “could be devastating to our NHS, food and climate” and warned that MPs have ended up with “no right to know what is even being discussed.”
Labour’s long-promised Act has scraped through the Lords. While the law marks a step forward, its lack of collective rights leaves workers short-changed — and sets the stage for a renewed campaign for an Employment Rights Bill #2, argues TONY BURKE
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
