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Amazon accused of ‘dirty tricks’ as GMB withdraws recognition bid
Amazon refuses to pay workers a decent wage, but are paying an additional 1,300 workers to try and bust the union, says GMB
Baroness Frances O’Grady: Bill flies in the face of human rights, equality & ILO conventions
Speech to the House of Lords 08/06/23
Government faced its second big defeat on the Strikes Bill
Matt Dykes of the TUC reports on another humiliation for the Government in the Lords
Lords revolt: Government defeated again on controversial Minimum Service Level Bill
Peers inflict further defeats on Government’s anti-strike lefislation
Miscarriages must be included in bereavement leave, GMB Congress hears
The law must be changed to give paid time off for both partners in families that experience pregnancy loss, says GMB Congress
Labour needs a properly funded plan for the North Sea and North Sea workers.
Unite will not accept jam tomorrow
RMT writes to MPs as 20,000 railway workers strike
Government "squandering billions of pounds on a futile war against the rail unions"
Covid inquiry must take ‘unflinching look at Britain’s broken sick pay system’.
Pandemic showed that "British labour law is not fit for purpose."
Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Act gets Royal Assent
UNISON had been working with Dan Jarvis MP on the Private Members Bill which extends existing redundancy protections
Just Fair report to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – easy read version
New version of report (contributed to by the IER) launched
HSE must investigate all work-related suicides, demands Unite
Unite believes that the excessive number of construction worker suicides is often directly related to working conditions,
