P&O and freedom of association: a memo to Keir Starmer A Labour government would be wise to implement new recommendations from the ILO that would protect trade unionists and their right to bargain collectively, writes Professor KEITH EWING
Features | Tuesday 11th Jul 2023 The persecution of trade unionists and their families: from Tolpuddle to Ascott-under-Wychwood to the miners’ strike
Sunday 26th Jun 2022 Three attacks on the right to strike Severely rattled by the ongoing rail dispute, the Tories are looking at ways to force ‘minimum servicing,’ agency strike-breakers and a massive increase in damages onto the unions, writes Professor KEITH EWING
Sunday 10th Apr 2022 P&O scandal is a result of the weakness of British labour law Professor KEITH EWING asks what is to be done over the appalling ease with which workers can be ‘fired and replaced’
Thursday 24th Mar 2022 P&O ferries, business and human rights: what's in our arsenal? PROFESSOR KEITH EWING looks at how international laws that cover the human rights of the workforce may work in the labour movement's favour in light of the shock mass sacking of 800 seafarers
Monday 21st Mar 2022 P&O sackings show why laws to protect workers are so important When global companies are unconstrained by law, they are free to treat their workers like commodities, PROF KEITH EWING explains
Friday 31st Jul 2020 Covid-19 has exposed a failing state Amid the continued unfolding crisis, PROF KEITH EWING revisits the words of Lenin to shed light on what is happening and why
Thursday 21st May 2020 No safety without the unions The government has now released its own ‘guidances’ for a return to work by stealth — cutting workers’ representation out of the picture, writes KEITH EWING
Friday 27th Mar 2020 What should we make of the governments Coronavirus jobs retention scheme? THE government’s recently announced Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme was met with widespread approval.
Monday 02nd Dec 2019 A minimum service agreement – or a ban on strikes? TRADE unionists now have a real choice: more attacks on the right to strike from the Tories.
Wednesday 13th Jun 2018 What should a new Ministry of Labour look like? Labour’s manifesto pledges to create a Ministry of Labour – but what form should it take and what powers should it have?