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Next steps for Social Partnership in Wales

The Welsh Government is legislating to strengthen social partnership and to create a platform to deliver fair work in Wales.

Joe Allen - 23 Jan 2020

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We must pull together and fight for working people

As we face the challenges of the 2020s, all parts of the labour and trade union movement must pull together. We need to listen to the working-class communities we exist to serve. We need to show humility, reflect – and then pick ourselves up and prepare for the battles ahead.

Frances O'Grady - 01 Jan 2020

Corporate Governance and responsibility

Frances O'Grady

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

Kate Bell - 19 Dec 2019

Economy, jobs and pay

Boris Johnson

Importing US working practices to the UK - the risk to workers’ rights

Senior Conservatives are determined to secure a US trade deal that would mean lower standards and fewer protections for workers.

Tim Sharp - 02 Dec 2019

Economy, jobs and pay

Trump and Boris

Collective bargaining - what is it and why it means higher pay for everyone

When workers unite to call for better wages and conditions, the boss has to listen. That's called collective bargaining - and we need more of it.

Janet Williamson - 23 Nov 2019

The hand that will rule the world cartoon

If you think employment and trade union rights in the UK are ‘gold-plated’, think again

Union organisers still face obstacles including hostile employers, union-busting and blacklisting. In the UK every worker deserves a great job. But we all know that this is far from being the case.

Laurie Heselden - 21 Nov 2019

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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.

Kate Bell - 21 Nov 2019

Economy, jobs and pay

Jeremy Corbyn

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.

Kate Bell - 20 Nov 2019

Economy, jobs and pay

Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson holding a copy of the 2019 Liberal Democrat manifesto

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