Your rights at work: worth fighting for

25.01.12 -

Today, we are launching a new campaign to defend your rights at work - and I wanted to make sure you are one of the first people to know about it.

Yesterday, a group of Conservative MPs hosted a drinks party in Parliament to unveil a campaign with just one aim - to make it harder for trade unions to speak up for you when you need them.

Yet again, David Cameron’s Tories are proving they’re on the side of big business, and not on the side of ordinary working people.

Our rights at work have been fought for and won over more than a century – and now Cameron’s government is trying to unpick those rights one by one.

But we’re not going to let the Tories turn back the clock - today, we’re starting a campaign to defend each and every one of those rights, and to make sure we have a trade union to back us up when we need them.

http://www.unionstogether.org.uk/worthfightingfor

And we’re starting out with a petition to protect one of the most important rights - the right to go to work without our safety being put at risk, and our lives put in danger.

This month, David Cameron declared that "this coalition has a clear new year's resolution: to kill off the health and safety culture for good".

The Conservatives want to erode the rules that stop our employers cutting corners on something as fundamental as our safety at work.

Last year 171 people were killed at work, and thousands more were injured.

That’s why today, we’re launching a petition to demand that Cameron breaks this ‘new year’s resolution’ to undermine our right to be safe at work.

http://www.unionstogether.org.uk/worthfightingfor

This government are showing us that we can’t take even our most basic rights for granted.

Your rights at work are worth fighting for – join our campaign today.