[IER] Covid inquiry must take ‘unflinching look at Britain’s broken sick pay system’.

Fri Jun 2 17:02:43 BST 2023

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Covid inquiry must take ‘unflinching look at Britain’s broken sick pay system’.

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“It has been obvious long before the pandemic that British labour law is not fit for purpose. It is not just statutory sick pay. The problems are endemic. But so far as Covid is concerned, it revealed first the exploitation of critical workers; second at the failure generally to make adequate provision for income security; and third the lack of proper provision relating to health and safety at work. While it is important that the Covid inquiry addresses statutory sick pay, it is important that it addresses these and other failures of workers' rights as well.”

Keith Ewing

Via the Morning Star

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Labour needs a properly funded plan for the North Sea and North Sea workers.

“Grabbing the headlines is easy, developing a serious plan for more renewable energy is not.”- Sharon Graham, Unite general secretary

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Trade union membership dips in the UK

Union membership across all sectors falls to 22.3% 

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Why is union membership falling in the UK?

If unions are to reverse their fortunes come the release of the 2023 membership figures in May 2024, they will have to resolve the issue of how to take effective, low-cost industrial action, argues Gregor Gall 

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How we will refresh, renew and reboot the movement against racism

How to tackle racism in the world of work and make our trade unions more inclusive and more representative at every level, By NASUWT General Secretary Patrick Roach 

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Why the Battle to Unionise Amazon Matters

Amazon workers in Coventry are on the brink of historic union recognition. Their groundbreaking organising campaign shows that it is possible to fight back against injustice – even in the most hostile of environments. By Taj Ali 

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“Total peace” policy in Colombia

Conversation with Associate Judge of Colombia’s Special Peace Jurisdiction (JEP) and anthropologist Juan Felipe García. Professor García has accompanied and legally represented the community of Las Pavas, Papayal island, northwestern Colombia, for over two decades. He has been behind some of the most crucial decisions issued by the High Courts of the country concerning paramilitary targetting of territorial native and peasant communities.  He will speak to the prospects of these cases and the implementation of so-called “total peace” policy in Colombia. Date: 9 June, 2023. Time: 11.00 a.m. Place: Birkbeck Law School, 16 Gower Street WC1E 6HE, Ground Floor, Meeting Room. 

 <https://www.bbk.ac.uk/schools/law> Birkbeck Law School 

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RMT writes to MPs as 20,000 railway workers strike

Government "squandering billions of pounds on a futile war against the rail unions" 

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Watch: Arise Festival opening rally: Our Right to Resist

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