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MOST people who voted in the general election want workers’ rights protected and a ban on zero-hours contracts, a new survey has revealed.
The TUC-commissioned poll of almost 3,000 adults also suggested widespread support for higher investment in public services.
Voters who switched from Labour to the Conservatives are most likely to want stronger employment rights, the union body said.
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
TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK tells Ben Chacko that Labour can win back disillusioned voters by delivering workplace reforms, rebuilding trust and challenging the far right’s growing influence
The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP