Resisting employer attacks on workers' rights

‘There is a virus sweeping British workplaces — and it’s not the flu virus. It is the virus of naked and unaccountable employer power, with employers now taking advantage of the economic crisis to make workers pay’, writes Keith Ewing http://www.ier.org.uk/node/563

In a second article published this week, Keith outlines a few examples of employer bad behaviour, which he says reminds him of some of the worst practices of the 1980s. Employers using and abusing redundancy procedures to undermine the terms and conditions of workers – issuing inferior contracts on a take-it-or-leave-it basis under the 90 days notice provisions - offer just one example of bad employer practices.

Keith looks at various options for challenging such abusive employer behaviour. As he says: “...at a time when trade unionists are being thrown into battle with bows and arrows against tanks, any weapon to support guerrilla campaigns is to be embraced”.