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Is the Employment Rights Bill a step on the road to a better conditions for workers, or the limit of Labour's ambitions?
There's already been a lot of business push-back, so a clear worry is that rather than being a downpayment on a Labour led change for workers, its the whole thing.
However, if it is really is a first step & it Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs) start to inform policy, then Amy Brooker's hopes for workers may be fulfilled.
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@ChrisMayLA6
> Is the Employment Rights Bill a step on the road to a better conditions for workers, or the limit of Labour's ambitions?
That depends entirely on how organised labour receives it, and how strong they are. If they tug their forelock and accept it, or if they don't have the strength (in both numbers and will) to struggle for better, it's the best they're likely to get.
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Ignore the people who argue for going easy on governments they describe as "centre-left". No sitting government is part of the left.
Governments have to play to the centre of the bell curve. Corporatists understand this, which is why they've been amplifying the voices of the (economic) hard right and the (social) far right.
Going easy on the government moves the left-hand goalpost towards the centre, which makes them more likely to perceive the centre as being further to the right.
Yes, I'd agree with you assessment of unions' role... and the pressure not to revisit these issues in shirt order (with a further act pushing on with a better work agenda) will increase, framed as an argument to 'let these changes bed in'....
@ChrisMayLA6
> the pressure not to revisit these issues ... will increase, framed as an argument to 'let these changes bed in'....
Well that's what the corporatists have done over the last 4 decades right? Just make one modest reform at a time, which the next government will likely just roll back ; )
People who argue for timidity need to look at the shock and awe tactics they actually use. Push as many extreme reforms through in the first 2/3 of a term, then lolly scramble to win re-election.
yes, the idea that if you're going to go big on change, best to it early has not been part of their thinking.... mainly because, I suspect, as many do here, that a big change is not what they (or perhaps their backers) really want