[IER] The Institute of Employment Rights (IER) at Labour Party conference

[Ben Sellers]

News brief 23/09/22   View this email in your browser 





IER & CTUF Labour Party fringe meeting in Liverpool


After a year where fire and rehire, the P&O scandal and restrictive anti-union legislation hit the headlines, the IER looks back at the lessons from the Pentonville 5, 50 years ago this summer.
The event will hear from a range of speakers about the attacks on trade union freedoms, employment rights and the right to strike. With a new PM in Downing Street, seemingly intent on ripping up more of our rights, it couldn’t be a more opportune time to have this discussion.


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Interest rates rise for seventh time in a row – to 2.25%
The rate has been lifted by half a percentage point from 1.75% and takes borrowing costs to their highest levels since 2008. Interest rates have been rising since last December as inflation has risen to its highest level in four decades.


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New GFTU publication: The True Causes of Inflation
This pamphlet, produced by the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) and written by Costas Lapavitsas, James Meadway & Doug Nicholls, shows that the big businesses dominating production and distribution make huge profits out of high inflation, while working people lose out. 


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Unions launch legal challenge against Government’s “strike-breaking”
Eleven trade unions launch judicial review of “anti-worker” regulations which “undermine the right to strike” 


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Unison takes Govt to court over law allowing the use of agency workers to break strikes
Unison issued proceedings with the High Court on the 13 September, triggering the start of a process seeking a judicial review of the Government’s decision. 


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Towards a Public Pathway Approach to a Just Energy Transition for the Global South
Leaders from trade unions, three Global Union Federations, and allied organizations representing 27 countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia Pacific will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, in mid-October to launch a new trade union initiative to promote a “public pathway” approach to a just energy transition in the Global South


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