Tory & Lib Dem peers are plotting to gut Labour's #WorkersRightsBill - that aims to scrap zero-hours, ban unfair dismissal & greater strike powers!
Tory & Lib Dem peers are plotting to gut Labour's #WorkersRightsBill - that aims to scrap zero-hours, ban unfair dismissal & greater strike powers!
You only have to look to America to see how bad the Oligarchs want it to be.
"TUC asked Clacton residents who they thought had opposed the employment rights bill. ... When told that it was in fact their MP, Nigel Farage, they reacted with genuine shock. âNigel? No!â replied one woman. âI am really surprised. Because I thought he was working for the public.â
Labour should take this as proof that failing to talk about workersâ rights is not only morally weak, but a strategic miscalculation."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/21/labour-workers-rights-bill-voters-reform
Why would the government water down and downplay such a popular policy? Because the business lobby doesnât like it, says Polly Smythe, labour movement correspondent at Novara Media
Union says Labourâs workersâ bill has âmore holes than Swiss cheeseâ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/unions-workers-rights-bill-starmer-b2627020.html
"Driving up employment standards is good for workers, good for business and good for growth. It will give workers more predictability and control and it will stop good employers from being undercut by the bad.
âWhile there is still detail to be worked through, this bill signals a seismic shift away from the Toriesâ low pay, low rights, low productivity economy."
Paul Nowak,
TUC.
https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/employment-rights-bill-can-improve-working-lives-millions
Labour's Workers' Rights Bill: Nearly 50 Changes Could be in Government's Plan for Employment Rights Law Shakeup â Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/10/09/labours-workers-rights-bill-explained/
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