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Check the small print before believing this government’s promises on workers’ rights
A government desperate to brand itself as on the side of working people has delivered a Queen’s Speech that offers a fig-leaf of reform coupled with an attack on the best organisations to protect workers’ rights – trade unions
The Conservative manifesto doesn’t deliver for working families - here's why
There’s no plan to get wages rising for everyone, no ban on zero-hours contracts, and no end to austerity in our public services
The Labour manifesto delivers for working families
Working families desperately need change at this election. The manifesto launched by the Labour Party today has the ingredients we need to deliver it.
Does the Liberal Democrat manifesto deliver for working families?
While there’s some welcome measures in the Lib Dem manifesto, it won’t deliver the decent jobs, rights and public services working families need.
Trade unions are rising to the challenge of tackling the climate emergency
Trade unionists are already on the frontline coping with the impact of climate change, but we must be involved at every step to bring about change on the scale needed to tackle this crisis.
Can we afford a shorter working week? Microsoft think so
Can we afford a four-day week? Microsoft certainly think so. This week, the tech giant announced that a four-day week trial in their Japanese office had boosted productivity by 40 per cent.
A political stunt that offers nothing to working people – our verdict on the Queen’s Speech
If Boris Johnson really wanted to rebuild Britain, he wouldn’t be threatening working families with the hardest possible Brexit.
The four-day week campaign - Labour’s 32-hour pledge brings it closer to reality
Trade unions won the weekend, the right to paid holidays, and rights for those who work part time. Today’s Labour announcement shows that in the twenty-first century we can win a shorter working week too.
Class prejudice is so rife in modern Britain, we need a new law to tackle it
The key to building working class power is strong trade unions, but class discrimination is so persistent that we need new laws to tackle it too.
Working people will pay price for the economic disaster of a no deal Brexit
A no deal Brexit would be a disaster for jobs, rights and public services
