Should the party take power, workers may expect a drastic overhaul that includes immediate employment rights, a prohibition on zero-hour contracts, and an end to the “fire and rehire” practice.
When Angela Rayner originally revealed the new agreement for working people in 2021, it was heralded as the greatest advancement in workers’ rights in decades.
Although the party made some revisions in the summer, union leaders said that a new document that was distributed to them this week attempted to go back even further on these promises.
The Unite Union’s general secretary, Sharon Graham, described the recently released paper as “unrecognisable” and a “betrayal” of the original blueprints.
