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The state Senate passed the “Temp Worker Bill of Rights” after a monthslong saga that included a thrice-delayed final vote. The bill will give temp workers the right to basic information in their native language and eliminate agency fees.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch speaking As strikes burgeon in the UK, we are also seeing a resurgence of the decades-long drive to legally suppress strikes. The edifice of multiple anti-union/anti-strike laws introduced under the Thatcher and Major governments was completed by 1993; the 1997-2010 Labour governments did nothing to touch these laws; and the next attack, the Trade Union Act, was not passed till 2016. Then, in July 2022, we had the legalisation of agency labour for strike-breaking, and now an attack on transport workers’ right to strike.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch speaking As strikes burgeon in the UK, we are also seeing a resurgence of the decades-long drive to legally suppress strikes. The edifice of multiple anti-union/anti-strike laws introduced under the Thatcher and Major governments was completed by 1993; the 1997-2010 Labour governments did nothing to touch these laws; and the next attack, the Trade Union Act, was not passed till 2016. Then, in July 2022, we had the legalisation of agency labour for strike-breaking, and now an attack on transport workers’ right to strike.
The legislation would provide privacy rights to domestic workers, and require employers and domestic employees to enter into a written contract.
The bill would codify safeguards for temporary workers in New Jersey. “This is not about politics," said Diego Bartesaghi. “This is about workers and workers’ rights.”