[IER] P&O’s Peter Hebblethwaite wins worst boss poll

[Ben Sellers]

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P&O’s Peter Hebblethwaite wins worst boss poll


P&O boss Peter Hebblethwaite has won an unwanted title – being voted as the Worst Boss in the World at the 5th ITUC World Congress in Melbourne, Australia, where nearly 1000 trade unionists from 122 countries met over the last week.
The six who made the 2022 shortlist run companies with business models that exploit workers through low wages and insecure jobs that deny people’s rights to form and join a union and collectively bargain. They have exploited the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis for their own profit, instead of taking responsibility for the workers that they rely upon.


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ITUC World Congress: new leadership unveiled

Luca Visentini was elected at the new General Secretary to lead with ITUC along with:
• Deputy General Secretaries Eric Mwezi Manzi, Jordania Ureña Lora, Owen Tudor;
• President Akiko Gono;
• Deputy Presidents Cathy Feingold, Antonio Lisboa. 


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New IER blog series: Labour, Strategy, and Legal Mobilisation
The purpose of this new IER blog series is to shed light on the ways that law is mobilised at work, the role of courts and their capacity to redress workplace grievances, and the broader role of law in industrial relations.

Below, we provide links to the first three pieces in the series


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The IWGB and strategic litigation: using the law within the strategies and tactics of work organising
As part of the new Labour, Strategy and Legal Mobilisation series, Alex Marshall and Jamie Woodcock look at the use of the law in union organising.


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The opportunities and limitations of strategic litigation in the industrial relations
As part of the new Labour, Strategy and Legal Mobilisation series, Dr Jack Meakin explores the opportunities and limitations of strategic litigation


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Reflections on the Role of the Trade Union Lawyer
As part of the new Labour, Strategy and Legal Mobilisations series, John Hendy KC writes about the role of a trade union lawyer:


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They are coming for us – we’d better have a plan
As living standards tumble, we mustn’t be fooled into thinking this is the natural order of things. Workers rights are under immediate threat. By getting together we can fight back, writes IER Director Ben Sellers


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‘From Pentonville to P&O: Union Rights & Tory Wrongs’
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