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News Brief 05 / 07 / 13
In the news this week …
With so many column inches dedicated to the controversial Labour Party vote in Falkirk , anyone would think it was Len McCluskey who was stripping workers of their rights and standing idly by while his policies reduced thousands to poverty ; or that it was Ed Miliband who provided dinners for donors and invited the rich to offer policy recommendations from which he would barely err .
New on the Coalition Timeline What have we learned from the Coalition Timeline so far ? Find out in the IER ' s latest series of articles
Trade union rights - Workers and reps not invited to review of employment rights ( 28 / 06 / 13 )
- PM wastes PMQs with relentless union bashing ( 03 / 07 / 13 )
Health and safety - Draft Deregulation Bill further attacks health and safety ( 01 / 07 / 13 )
Increasing vulnerability in the workplace - We can ' t get rid of TUPE , Swinson tells HR professionals ( 03 / 07 / 13 )
- Lib Dem vies for weak code of practice for zerohours contracts ( 04 / 07 / 13 )
Public sector - Remploy Closures take another 284 jobs ( 04 / 07 / 13 )
The amount of time wasted in Prime Minister Questions on Monday on bashing Len McCluskey reveals just how much Tory disgust still remains for unions , not only among the hardline backbenchers , but also from the Cabinet . It should come as no surprise to subscribers that the Conservative Party have such anti-worker values , with our Coalition timeline tracking a continuous disregard for the voice of workers during the policymaking process . As if to prove just how out-of-touch Tories are with ordinary people , one group of MPs recently put forth a Private Members ' Bill to rename the August bank holiday Margaret Thatcher day .
Elsewhere this week , there has been further evidence of the disastrous effect neoliberal politics has had on the average Briton . Founder of the Low Pay Commission George Bain has warned the wages are stagnating for many workers , and a significant and increasing proportion are on a salary not much higher than the National Minimum Wage ( which itself has suffered lower-than-inflation increases , or freezes , over the last few years ).
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