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Thursday 5 September 2013

Drip-drip attacks on workers’ rights are Thatcher Redux

#TUC13 ‘A cursory glance through the 2013 TUC Agenda highlights the extent of the ever-growing employment rights problems facing workers in all sectors of our economy. Whether it's on health and safety, unfair dismissal, redundancy, maternity or equality issues, this government has ignored all the evidence and sidestepped opposition to force through changes that not only turn back the clock but are now destabilising the very bases of our industrial relations settlement,’ writes Carolyn Jones of the Institute of Employment Rights in a Congress preview:
http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/greater-union-presence-essential-heal-divided-britain#.UicHDAuDUlM.twitter