Keith Ewing declares the Government's response to the consultation disgraceful and says In their present form the regulations are not worth having;they change nothing, give no new rights, and its is a delusion to think otherwise. Read More

An excellent panel of speakers addressed a full room of delegates at this first joint Institute and SERTUC event on the implications of the ECJ decisions in the Viking, Laval, Ruffert and Luxembourg cases.

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In December 2007 the European Court of Justice – the “Supreme Court” of the European Union -delivered a crushing blow to trade unions when in the Viking and Laval decisions it decided that the right of businesses to freedom of establishment must take priority over the right of trade unions to take industrial action to safeguard the interests of their members.

East Lindsey, Posted Workers and ECJ decisions

Professor Keith Ewing, President of IER, argues that politicians need to address the contradictions and stupidity of the Posted Workers’ Directive and recent European Court of Justice decisions. If not, he predicts current expressions of discontent will continue to boil over as the recession deepens.