Brian Strutton Articles

Having a reasonable working day and holidays to enjoy leisure time; high standards of health and safety as the norm; laws giving basic rights to workers for protection against unfairness and inequality; decent jobs with good rates of pay where there had only been...

Make no mistake: the new trade union bill is a deeply intolerant tirade against working people and the labour movement. Ignore the bland ministerial statements and read the damn thing – it is deliberately designed to outlaw most strikes and other forms of legitimate...

Last week the pro-market Institute of Economic Affairs published a report criticising the effect of the national minimum wage on jobs and argued, among other things, for its level to be reduced and for it to be done away with altogether for young workers. The IEA also...