IER at TUC 2022
Learning from the past to build a better future - Now is the time for a New Deal for Workers
Come to our TUC stall and chat with us about what a New Deal for Workers might look like, and why it's so important for a post-covid recovery.
IER activity at TUC
IER briefing
Read our free briefing on why we need a radical Manifesto for Recovery to address the cost of living crisis, and what it might look like. Download here, or pickup copies on the stall
Find the IER stall
Come and chat about all things employment rights related. Click for more information
Cad's retirement social
Register for your free place to celebrate Cad's retirement, and women making it to the top (after our Sunday evening fringe)
Briefing: Work and Health - 50 years of regulatory failure
Read our free briefing that summarises the key points of our Work and Health project
Listen to what our experts have to say
Read IER expert comment
Grant Shapps, civil contingencies, and the right to strike.
The latest plans to suppress industrial action are chilling. They are the hallmark of authoritarian government – and worse.
The Government’s response to the cost-of-living crisis is nothing short of class war.
In a two part article, Lord John Hendy QC examines the steady erosion of employment rights & collective bargaining.
Warning from history: On the 50th anniversary of the jailing of the Pentonville Five.
How British governments, Tory and Labour, have systematically adapted the law to suppress legitimate trade union activity.
Three attacks on the right to strike.
The Tories are looking at ways to force ‘minimum servicing,’ agency strike-breakers and a massive increase in damages onto the unions.
Agency Workers as Strike-Breakers: ILO Convention 87, and the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
The current law prohibits agencies from supplying workers to perform ‘duties normally performed by a worker who is taking part in a strike.
‘Fire and Replace’ NOT ‘Fire and Rehire’: What is to be done?
"The problem of ‘fire and replace’ will be resolved only if we remove the opportunity and incentive for employers to use it."
Downloads
- IER_Manifesto_A4-WEB-high-res-FINAL.pdf - 1.64 MB
- Health-and-work-briefing-15-07-2022.pdf - 215.17 KB