[IER] Heart Unions Week and a New Deal for Workers

[Ben Sellers]

News brief - 18/02/22                                                                           View this email in your browser 





 Heart Unions Week focuses on a New Deal for Workers


Heart Unions Week, held this year between the 14th and 20th of February, is described by the TUC as “a chance to tell the story about why unions are vital for everyone at work, and encourage people who aren’t yet in a union to join.”

This year, many in the Labour movement have used Heart Unions Week to explain the importance of trade unions in our society, and crucially, also, to publicise and discuss the important work that had been done to create a framework to defend and extend worker’s rights (much of which has involved the IER) - in its current form a ‘New Deal for Working People’.


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#HeartUnions: your right to join a union
“We’re not allowed to join a union in my workplace”.
Many of us will have heard this refrain from colleagues, neighbours, friends and family. With a very small number of exceptions, however, it’s not true.


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Workers take up claims against Dyson over supply chain abuses
14 workers workers who made products and components for Dyson are taking legal action against the company, accusing it of a litany of labour abuses at a supplier in Malaysia. 


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Striking for a Living 
Strike Map UK is an online project mapping workers taking action across the UK. Alongside NHS Workers Say NO! they are jointly proposing a reps and stewards summit to discuss strategy, tactics and learn from those taking strike action. 


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IER and Covid-19
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