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The IWGB recognition victory at NHS provider TDL is welcome news from unexpected quarters.
With privatisation and casualisation advancing across the public sector and precarious work increasingly becoming the norm in huge sections of the private sector, particularly wholesale and retail, victories for workers are few and far between.
Against a backdrop of declining union density and power, such victories, including by IWGB members, by GMB members at Uber, by BFAWU members at McDonald’s and others, raise urgent questions for the movement.
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
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
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP