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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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