[IER] Organise! Our rights are under attack

[Ben Sellers]

News brief 24/03/23   View this email in your browser 





Organise! Our rights are under attack.


Our rights to assemble, to organise, and to fight for a better world are under threat from the UK Government. The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill 2023 seeks to undermine hard won workers’ rights and silence those who challenge the UK government’s broken economic policies. The ‘Policing Act’ and the Public Order Act will impose huge restrictions on the right to protest in the UK. The proposed anti-Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions law aims to stop public bodies from making ethical decisions about their investments, purchases and procurements.
In the first in this webinar series, War on Want host experts working on the opposition to all 3 bills as we work to build a collective movement to protect our rights, including the IER's Keith Ewing. 


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Unions respond to inflation rise
Inflation jumped for the first time in three months in February, with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) coming in at 10.4%, official data showed.


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TUC – The Conservatives are presiding over the worst period for living standards in modern history
The government’s failure to get wages rising has pushed families to the brink 


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Case against ‘GMB Three’ collapses as Crown offers no evidence
Three GMB union members arrested for blocking bin lorries during a strike in Brighton have been found not guilty. 


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Unite member says he feels fully vindicated in Crossrail “blacklisting” case
Skilled electrician unable to secure work after raising safety concerns 


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Eye-watering payouts to DP World bosses an insult to common decency
DP World has been allowed to get away scot-free despite behaving like corporate gangsters. 


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Hard Up? Who is to Blame? The Economic Consequences of the Anti-union Laws
A joint event by the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom, and Socialist Economic Bulletin.
Monday 27 March at 19:00 via Zoom



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