4 h. ago Unions urge Government not to water down workers’ rights Bill

TUC leader Paul Nowak said workers expected Labour to deliver the Employment Rights Bill in full.

Politics

18 h. ago Workers rights must be protected from ‘cynical’ Tory attacks, union warns

Publishing new analysis on the eve of their annual conference in Brighton, the TUC revealed 4 million people are in insecure work, or one in eight of the workforce

Events

22 h. ago Reshuffle of junior ministers raises fears over future of Labour’s workers’ rights bill

Some believe fight is looming over sweeping reforms after employment rights minister Justin Madders sacked and union allies sidelinedKeir Starmer has sought to tighten his grip on his government with a wave of junior ministerial changes that has sidelined allies of the unions, raising questions over the future of Labour’s workers’ rights package.The reshuffle has been used by Downing Street to signal a tougher stance on immigration in an apparent bid to take on Reform UK, with Shabana Mahmood – a self-described social conservative rising star – now in charge of the Home Office, supported by Sarah Jones who returns to her former policing brief. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Business hopes grow Starmer will dilute workers’ rights bill

Angela Rayner’s downfall leaves flagship crackdown on zero-hours contracts and “fire and rehire” vulnerable

Economics

24 h. ago Business hopes grow that Starmer will water down workers’ rights bill

Angela Rayner’s downfall leaves flagship crackdown on zero-hours contracts and “fire and rehire” vulnerable

Economics

66 h. ago Head of Britain's trade union movement urges Rachel Reeves to set up new wealth tax to boost services

Paul Nowak called on the Chancellor to look at hitting those worth more than £10 million with fresh levies while hiking capital gains tax - insisting this would not lead to an exodus of the wealthy.

Economics

3 d. ago Trade unions urge Reeves to fend off Reform UK with wealth taxes

TUC head says ministers must show they are ‘on the side of working people’ with levies on banks and gambling sector

Economics

4 d. ago Thames Water creditors outline £20.5bn investment aims under rescue plans

The London & Valley Water consortium is pledging to ‘fix the foundations’ of Thames Water with the mammoth spending proposal put forward to Ofwat.

Economics

9 d. ago Tory and Lib Dem peers accused of 'outrageous' plot to sabotage workers' rights bill

The Fire Brigades Union claimed amendments filed by opposition party peers in the House of Lords could “sabotage” Labour’s move to protect staff from overzealous bosses

Economics

1 week ago The Colorado River is in trouble. Some groups want the government to step up

A group of environmental advocates earlier this year sent a petition to the federal government with a simple, seemingly obvious message: Ensure that water from the imperiled Colorado River is only being delivered for reasonable and beneficial uses

Politics

1 week ago Thames Water agrees new £122m fine payment plan amid concerns over its future

Campaign group River Action slammed it as a ‘sweetheart deal’

Economics

2 w. ago HHS moves to strip thousands of federal health workers of union rights

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has moved to strip thousands of federal health agency employees of their collective bargaining rights

Politics

2 w. ago Government workers are ‘canary in coalmine’ for Trump bid to gut union rights, leaders warn

Administration has stripped hundreds of thousands of their union contracts as White House says it is just getting startedThe Trump administration has unilaterally stripped hundreds of thousands of federal workers of their union contracts after a federal appeals court overruled an injunction which halted the plans. It is just getting started, according to the White House.An executive order issued in March sought to cancel all collective bargaining agreements for most federal employees, citing national security concerns – and remove collective bargaining rights from more than a million workers. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Supermarkets suspend supplies from Lincolnshire pig farm after covert filming of animal abuse

Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s said they had ‘immediately’ suspended supplies from Somerby Top Farm after piglets kicked by workersThree of the UK’s biggest supermarkets have suspended supplies from a Lincolnshire pig farm after footage filmed covertly by an animal rights organisation appeared to show workers kicking piglets and hitting them with boards and paddles.The footage also suggested the injured pigs with open wounds were packed into pens covered in faeces, with some left lame and writhing in pain. Continue reading...

Economics

2 w. ago Supermarkets suspend supplies from Lincolnshire pig farm over animal abuse footage

Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s said they had ‘immediately’ suspended supplies from Somerby Top Farm after piglets kicked by workersThree of the UK’s biggest supermarkets have suspended supplies from a Lincolnshire pig farm after footage filmed covertly by an animal rights organisation appeared to show workers kicking piglets and hitting them with boards and paddles.The footage also suggested the injured pigs with open wounds were packed into pens covered in faeces, with some left lame and writhing in pain. Continue reading...

Economics

3 w. ago African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size

Member states back Correct the Map campaign that urges governments and organisations to use more accurate mapThe African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.Created by the cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South America. “It might seem to be just a map, but in reality, it is not,” the African Union Commission deputy chair, Selma Malika Haddadi, told Reuters, saying the Mercator fostered a false impression that Africa was “marginal”, despite being the world’s second-largest continent by area, with more than 1 billion people. The union has 55 member states. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Voices: Stop working in the heat? If only it were that simple, Angela Rayner

Having previously worked in a crisp factory, I know all too well the perils of labour in extreme temperatures, says Sean O’Grady. But there’s a glaringly obvious problem with the deputy prime minister’s suggestion...

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3 w. ago Rayner demanded right for Britons to stop working during heatwaves

It comes as temperatures in parts of the UK surpassed 30C this week, during the fourth heatwave of the summer

Politics

3 w. ago Thames Water could be sold to the Chinese after the Labour government puts it into temporary public ownership to 'wipe' much of its £16.8billion debt

Steve Reed, the environment secretary is understood to be making 'active preparations' to essentially nationalise Britain's largest water utility.

Economics

3 w. ago Government hires advisers to plan for potential Thames Water collapse

The embattled water company has been at threat of both nationalisation and collapse as its investors and creditors scramble to keep the group afloat.

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