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Lord Woodley (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 31 March 2025

Debate

Employment Rights Bill: Productivity

Contribution

My Lords, as a former leader of the Unite the Union, I warmly welcome this Bill, but I would like to see it go a little bit further when we deal with sectoral collective bargaining. Can the Minister listen to employment rights experts when they say that sectoral collective bargaining underpinned by legislation is the right way to achieve wider and broader growth in the economy and, importantly, a growth in productivity?

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