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Capital’s Latest Trick

Workers are facing an attack on pay and conditions, backed by the threat of the sack. Trade union action is our best hope to bring the assault to an end.

In late March of this year, an MP stood up in Parliament and warned that ‘employers threatening to fire and rehire’ their workers as a negotiating tactic ‘are doing something that is wrong’, it being what ‘decent employers do not do’. This MP politely noted that companies ‘should know better than to behave in this […]

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