workers' rights

Posties call for greater protection from Covid-19 to help them continue to serve

Communication Workers Union suggests Royal Mail should cease operating for profit for the duration of the crisis and become part of a united effort to beat the virus

Britain | Tuesday 31st Mar 2020

Care workers left with the kind of PPE they would wear to ‘make a sandwich,’ union warns

World | Tuesday 31st Mar 2020

Precarious workers across the world stage fightback against bosses ignoring the pandemic

Britain | Monday 30th Mar 2020

Food-production workers herded too close together, union warns

Monday 30th Mar 2020

‘Benefits need reform to save at-risk groups’

100 organisations call for reshaping of universal credit for the disabled as Labour demands boost to C-19 safety net

Sunday 29th Mar 2020

500 workers walk out of Asos factory after company fails to enforce social distancing

‘Asos needs to put people before profits and make sure workers are paid properly if they need to take time off,’ GMB said

Sunday 29th Mar 2020

Editorial: We are in a war of words — and Labour needs to get its language clear

THERE is a particular injustice in the government’s decision to compel freelance workers to subsist on £94 a week until June before they are entitl

Friday 27th Mar 2020

How are construction firms getting away with keeping sites open?

THE way the major construction firms have flouted — and been allowed to flout — the coronavirus lockdown is a prime example of much that is wrong w

Tuesday 24th Mar 2020

McDonnell urges Tory Chancellor to throw lifeline for self-employed

JOHN McDONNELL urged Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak to throw self-employed workers a lifeline today or at least clarify when state support will be off

Tuesday 24th Mar 2020

Italian workers set to strike after accusing bosses of putting profits over health

METALWORKERS in Italy’s Lombardy region are set to walk out for 24 hours on Wednesday.

Monday 23rd Mar 2020

Editorial: On Covid-19, a public information effort is better than a blame game

IT’S a blame game.

Monday 23rd Mar 2020

Unions welcome government's decision to renationalise rail services

However it should not have taken a pandemic to bring rail back into public ownership, trade unionists say

Monday 23rd Mar 2020

IWGB to sue government for failing to protect precarious workers

THE Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is to sue the government for excluding millions of workers from its guarantees of financial

Monday 23rd Mar 2020

Corbyn calls for more protection for Britain's five million self-employed workers

workers' rights

Posties call for greater protection from Covid-19 to help them continue to serve

Communication Workers Union suggests Royal Mail should cease operating for profit for the duration of the crisis and become part of a united effort to beat the virus

Care workers left with the kind of PPE they would wear to ‘make a sandwich,’ union warns

Precarious workers across the world stage fightback against bosses ignoring the pandemic

Food-production workers herded too close together, union warns

‘Benefits need reform to save at-risk groups’

100 organisations call for reshaping of universal credit for the disabled as Labour demands boost to C-19 safety net

500 workers walk out of Asos factory after company fails to enforce social distancing

‘Asos needs to put people before profits and make sure workers are paid properly if they need to take time off,’ GMB said

Editorial: We are in a war of words — and Labour needs to get its language clear

THERE is a particular injustice in the government’s decision to compel freelance workers to subsist on £94 a week until June before they are entitl

How are construction firms getting away with keeping sites open?

THE way the major construction firms have flouted — and been allowed to flout — the coronavirus lockdown is a prime example of much that is wrong w

McDonnell urges Tory Chancellor to throw lifeline for self-employed

JOHN McDONNELL urged Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak to throw self-employed workers a lifeline today or at least clarify when state support will be off

Italian workers set to strike after accusing bosses of putting profits over health

METALWORKERS in Italy’s Lombardy region are set to walk out for 24 hours on Wednesday.

Editorial: On Covid-19, a public information effort is better than a blame game

IT’S a blame game.

Unions welcome government's decision to renationalise rail services

However it should not have taken a pandemic to bring rail back into public ownership, trade unionists say

IWGB to sue government for failing to protect precarious workers

THE Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is to sue the government for excluding millions of workers from its guarantees of financial

Corbyn calls for more protection for Britain's five million self-employed workers

JEREMY CORBYN has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to expand financial help to the five million self-employed workers in Britain.

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