employee rights Articles

Recently we have seen reports of a French man on trial for assaulting shopworkers with camembert in Chelsea. It is easy to understand why this story was reported, journalists must have rubbed their hands in glee when this landed on their desks. However, this case is a...

Why women must be visible in the In campaign During the first week of the European Union referendum campaign, the airwaves and newspapers were awash with men in suits. Senior Tory politicians, businesspeople and retired army generals dominated the headlines. Most of...

The trade union bill, currently going through the House of Lords does more than it says on the tin. It has been presented as an opportunity to modernise industrial relations and to give members a greater influence within their unions. Its outcome, if unamended will...

With the draconian trade union bill close to passing into legislation, the Tory line is centred on this very notion: ‘strikes are bad for the public and bad for Britain’. Labour must expose the fallacy of this argument to the public. One of the most frightening...