Today [Tuesday 23 July] the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer and the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner met with Labour’s affiliated unions for the first time since Labour’s landslide general election win.
After 14 years of the Tories, the country has been left with a stagnating economy, outdated employment laws and the worst period in industrial relations since the 1980s.
Today’s meeting marks the start of a ‘new era for working people’, as the Labour Party and the affiliated unions begin the work to put politics back in the service of working people.
Together, we have reiterated our full commitment to Labour’s new deal for working people to make work pay, as agreed before the general election. Labour in government will introduce transformative legislation to ban exploitative zero hours contracts, end fire and rehire, and introduce basic rights from day one to parental leave, sick pay, and protection from unfair dismissal.
Together, and in collaboration with business we will deliver greater in-work security and better pay, to improve lives and bring substantial economic benefits.
We look forward to continuing to work together at pace to deliver for working people across the country.
