The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
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All eyes on New Zealand's Fair Pay Agreements
The British labour movement should watch events in New Zealand carefully as a legal leap in workplace recognition is being introduced while bosses and conservatives vow to resist it, reports TONY BURKE
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Jacinda Ardern is confident the pro-worker legislation will pass
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
JACINDA ARDERN’S Labour government in New Zealand has introduced legislation to enable industry-wide collective bargaining where unions can demonstrate worker support, or it passes a public interest test.
New Zealand’s Minister for Workplace Relations Michael Wood introduced the Fair Pay Agreement (FPA) Bill into Parliament, delivering on a Labour campaign pledge at the 2020 election.
New Zealand’s industrial relations system currently only permits collective bargaining at an enterprise level, between individual employers and unions.
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