Labour touts the Employment Rights Act as “the biggest upgrade in workers’ rights in a generation”. In reality, the new law is full of holes. Trade unions should seize what advantages it has given them, and go on the offensive against Starmer!

The Economist – a major propagandist for the liberal establishment – has recently sounded the alarm bells to the capitalist class it represents. The Employment Rights’ Act, which passed Parliament at the end of 2025, will be rolled out bit by bit in the coming months – and it risks hurting the bosses’ profits.

The Act, they say, will “return trade-union law to the 1970s” – containing many pro-worker reforms that apparently “slipped under the employers’ radar”, and will greatly empower unions.

These reforms include: the duty of employers to periodically tell their workers of their right to join a union; the right of unions to enter workplaces to recruit on-site; reduction of the threshold for union recognition to an insignificant proportion of the workplace, at 2 percent; abolition of the requirement for a 50 percent turnout on strike ballots; and the ability to vote electronically for strike action.

Back to the seventies?

Of course, the main aim of The Economist’s coverage of this issue is to hyperbolise the “dangers” of the Act to the bosses: namely, to “dent Britain’s attractiveness as a place to do business”.

Conversely, raising the perceived threat from the bosses’ side also shores up the Labour government’s narrative on the...

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