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UK All miscarriages and terminations need paid bereavement leave [GMB] 12-10-2024
UK England HelloFresh dismisses staff amid toilet break row [BBC] 12-10-2024
UK ‘More holes than Swiss cheese’ – unions disappointed by Labour's Employment Rights Bill [Morning Star] 11-10-2024
UK Employment Rights Bill: what does it mean for nursing staff [RCN] 11-10-2024
UK Families and businesses need an investment budget, says TUC [Morning Star] 11-10-2024
UK Employment Rights Bill could “transform social care”, says TUC [TUC] 11-10-2024
UK New enforcement agency will protect workers’ rights as part of ‘watershed’ bill [The Guardian] 10-10-2024
UK Labour unveils long-awaited New Deal for Workers [Morning Star] 10-10-2024
UK Labour's new deal for workers: A fight postponed? [BBC] 10-10-2024
UK Employment Rights Bill: A step forward for workers but stops short of making work pay [Unite] 10-10-2024
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This month in labour history
4-10-1936 At Cable Street, London, thousands of trade unionists, socialists and communists throw up barricades to block the British Union of Fascists from marching through the Jewish neighbourhoods of the East End. [more]
6-10-1913 The conference of the Miners Federation passes a motion in favour of a general strike in Britain to support Dublin's locked out workers, with only one vote against. [more]
25-10-1895 Socialist and feminist Edith Lanchester captured by her family and institutionalised for opposing the institution of marriage [more]