On Friday the 10th July, the Institute of Employment Rights, alongside the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom held their annual pre-Durham Miners’ Gala rally, one of the highlights of the Big Meeting weekend.
The Employment Rights Act passed last year was a good first step and introduced a number of important new rights for individual workers, but the IER, CTUF and it’s network of experts have subsequently argued that it has done very little to restore rights for trade unions – our collective rights at work. There are three important topics that were set out in Labour’s Green Paper New Deal for Working People that have not made it into the new legislation:
In Durham, the need a new framework of law at work that will once again ensure that trade unions have power in the workplace was placed at the head of the agenda.
Speaking at the meeting, held at Durham’s Elvet Methodist Church, were: Fran Heathcote – General Secretary, Public & Commercial Services Union; Andrea Egan – General Secretary, Unison; Lord John Hendy KC – Campaign for Trade Union Freedom/Institute of Employment Rights; Steve Gillan – General Secretary, POA; Gawain Little– General Secretary, GFTU; Cristina loanitescu – General Secretary, App Drivers & Couriers Union; Sarah Kilpatrick – Deputy General Secretary, NEU; Adelina McLeod of the BMA....
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