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The Meaning Behind The Song: What Makes the Irish Heart Beat by Van Morrison
The Meaning Behind The Song: What Makes the Irish Heart Beat by Van Morrison Van Morrison is a respected and renowned artist who has made an impact on music lovers all over the world with his unique sound. One of his most admired songs is “What Makes the Irish Heart Beat,” which explores the essence of being Irish. Released in 2000, the song has a catchy tune and lyrics that speak to the spirit of the Irish people.
Is Labour Backsliding on Workers’ Rights?
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The Meaning Behind The Song: Move It on Over by Boxcar Willie
The Meaning Behind The Song: Move It on Over by Boxcar Willie Boxcar Willie was a well-known country singer, songwriter and musician who gained fame for his train-themed songs and performances. One of his most popular songs, “Move It on Over,” was a hit in the 1970s and still holds up today as a classic country song. But what does the song really mean? Let’s take a closer look at the lyrics and find out the deeper meaning behind the song.
The Meaning Behind The Song: Beautiful World (Featuring Patty Griffin) by Patty Griffin
The Meaning Behind The Song: Beautiful World (Featuring Patty Griffin) Patty Griffin is a singer, songwriter, and musician known for her soulful voice and deeply introspective lyrics. Her song, “Beautiful World,” featuring Patty Griffin is a beautiful ode to hope, gratitude, and the joy of life. The song has received critical acclaim for its uplifting message and soulful delivery.
The Meaning Behind The Song: Lazy Eye by The Goo Goo Dolls
The Meaning Behind The Song: Lazy Eye by The Goo Goo Dolls Lazy Eye is one of the most iconic songs from The Goo Goo Dolls, an American rock band that has been around since 1986. The song was released in 2006 as part of the album “Dizzy Up the Girl.” Over the years, Lazy Eye has become a fan favorite thanks to its catchy tune, inspiring lyrics, and intense guitar riffs. Table of Contents Toggle Lazy Eye is a song that was written by The Goo Goo Dolls frontman, John Rzeznik.
'Starmer's vision for workers' rights will fail without a new Ministry of Labour'
In an important speech to the GMB annual conference on June 6th, Keir Starmer reaffirmed a strong commitment to the Labour Party’s new deal for working people. In a number of crowd-pleasing gestures, he promised to ban zero-hours contracts, outlaw fire and rehire and enhance flexibility rights at the workplace. He also engaged positively with the GMB campaign to secure recognition at Amazon and spoke of the need to strengthen the role of trade unions.
The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is authoritarian, illiberal and illegal
Although the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is only seven pages long, its implications are enormous – but will be subject to minimal parliamentary scrutiny. The Bill adds to an already intolerable burden of legal restraints on British trade unions. These restraints have their origins in the Thatcher era, and have grown exponentially since.
Banning Strikes by the Backdoor?
When the bill that became the Trade Union Act 2016 was first introduced in Parliament, the then president of the TUC, Frances O’Grady, suggested that the Government might be using the new legislation to ‘ban strikes by the back door’. An outright prohibition of industrial action would be too politically contentious and anyway vulnerable to legal challenge as breaching workers’ and trade unions’ freedom of association, protected by Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill: More Government by Diktat
The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is a short Bill of only six pages: seven sections (three of which are a single sentence), and a short schedule. It replaces the now redundant Transport (Minimum Service Levels) Bill which in contrast ran to 19 pages, despite applying to a single sector. Yet the new Bill extends to health services, fire and rescue services, education services, nuclear decommissioning, and border security, as well as transport.
Transport Strikes (Minimum Service Level) Bill
This is an excerpt from the IER booklet, ‘Workers’ Rights in Times of Crisis’, written by Professor Keith Ewing & John Hendy KC & published by the Instititute in December 2022. It is likely that the Transport Strikes (Minimum Service) Bill will be withdrawn and replaced with a new Bill extending its scope early next week, but Keith and John’s analysis of the previous Bill gives a vital overview of the Government’s direction of travel.
Workers’ Bill of Rights for an Age of Crisis
The Institute of Employment Rights demonstrated how sectoral collective bargaining could be achieved legislatively in its Rolling Out the Manifesto, 2018. The principles were adopted by the Labour Party in the 2017 and 2019 Election Manifestos and are found in A New Deal for Working People adopted by the Labour Party Conference in 2021 and reiterated in the 2022 Conference and the speeches of the Labour Leader and Deputy Leader.
They are coming for us – we’d better have a plan - IER
These are extraordinary times. As the Tory government teeters from one crisis to another, and the markets tumble, the trade unions are on the move. It feels like we are on the brink of a major struggle between the labour movement and those in power, but for many, it is simply a battle for survival.
As Johnson leaves the stage, workers must resist the clampdown on trade union activity
Trade unionists can be forgiven if they were momentarily distracted last week. Amidst a ‘summer of discontent’, in the aftermath of nationwide rail strikes and with more on the horizon, the dramatic unravelling of Boris Johnson’s premiership across three days of resignations, negotiations and backstage manoeuvring understandably dominated headlines.
Three attacks on the right to strike
The government response to the RMT dispute is straight from the Tory playbook. A simmering resentment of a trade union, pick a fight with the same union, control the management of the dispute and use the dispute for partisan political ends which serve no public interest, with passengers and workers treated as collateral damage. Use it also as cover for even more attacks on the right to strike.
P&O is a disgraceful example of ‘fire and replace’, so what can we do to stop it happening again?
'The problem of ‘fire and replace’ will be resolved only if we remove the opportunity and incentive for employers to use it' By Professor Keith Ewing, professor of public law at Kings College, London and President of the Campaign For Trade Union Freedom Grant Shapps’ nine-point plan in response to the P&O affair has been widely criticised as falling well short of what is required to deal not only with the ongoing dispute, but also with its legacy to ensure that this does not happen again.
The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy
'Building on historical analyses of the role of labor in constructing democracy, this most timely and insightful volume explores how globalized capitalism has endangered unions and created conditions eroding democracy the world over.
The Bill that gives MI5 carte blanche to spy on trade unions
The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill – currently in the House of Lords – can be seen as the latest in a series of initiatives introduced over the last 70 years intended to protect the Security Service and Special Branch.
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No safety without the unions
Last week, the gloves came off. The pretence of government consultation of unions was dropped with the vicious attack on the teachers who decline to go back to work without the assurance that it is safe for their members, their members’ families, the pupils and their families. Their view is shared by the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments and the British Medical Association. It is also shared by the leaders of English local authorities.
Labour law 2nd edition | Employment law
Labour Law offers a comprehensive and critical account of the subject by a team of prominent labour lawyers, and includes both collective labour rights and individual employment rights. By placing the law in its social, economic and political contexts, and showing how the law works in practice through case-studies, students will acquire not only a good knowledge of the law but also an appreciation of its importance and the complexity of the issues.
Trading off labour standards
Can trade agreements protect labour standards? For their proponents, the answer is an unequivocal yes. Take the relevant chapter in the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, commonly referred to as the TPP, which the Australian government sees as the gold standard in the field.
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