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Charter of Workers' Rights
The United Campaign worked
with the Institute of Employment on a Charter of Workers'
Rights.
The Charter is a positive
framework of rights for working people, both individual rights
and collective rights. The charter proposes in a single document
a clear alternative to the Thatcherite anti-union laws.
Summary
of the Charter
1 dignity and fair
terms
Every worker has the right to dignity at work, to a fair wage
and to just conditions of work.
2 health and safety
Every worker has the right to a safe and healthy working
environment.
3 non-discrimination
Every worker has the right not to be discriminated against
and to be treated with equality in equivalent circumstances.
4 job security
Every worker has the right to security of employment
(whether in relation to closures, redundancies, transfers
or otherwise).
5 income security
Every worker has the right to fair income security in
retirement, sickness and unemployment.
6union membership
Every worker has the right to form and join a trade union
for the protection of his or her occupational, social and
economic interests, and not to be discriminated against on
grounds of union membership, participating in union activities,
or union representation.
7 union autonomy
Every trade union has the right to uphold its own rule-book,
to spend its funds and to conduct its activities including
industrial action in accordance with its rules, free from
employer and state interference.
8 industrial action
Every worker has the right to take industrial action
for the protection of his or her occupational, social and
economic interests (or those of any other worker) without
being in breach of contract, and without threat of dismissal
or discrimination.
9 union representation
Every worker has the right of individual and collective
representation by a trade union, including the right to collective
bargaining and to participate in decisions at work.
10 effective remedies
Every worker has the right, from the outset of his or
her employment, to effective remedies to enforce his or her
rights, including adequate rights for workers’ representatives
to inspect and to obtain information.
To
download a flyer of the Charter summary click here
Copies of the Charter
or the summary are available to purchase from the Institute
of Emploment Rights.
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