'Mr Sunak, what do you think about the living conditions on the Bibi Stockholme?' 'Well, I never had Sky TV as a child so i understand true hardship...'
He's not going to do anything about it, this is all talk. Labour have the same rich donors the tories do now they aren't going to risk that by actually helping working class people. Any legislation will be watered-down and meaningless.
@@darthvader822 did you even watch all this? if so you didn't actually listen did you? He clearly explained what workers rights there are now which weren't there not so long ago; most of which the Tories wanted to remove; and if they got in with a large majority, clearly would have... and still will... if / when they can...
Tories losing their absolute minds right now "WE WERE GETTING BACK TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF CHILD LABOUR IN THE VICTORIAN WORKHOUSES AND THE WOKE REPTILIANS HAVE RUINED IT!!!!"
Yes Tories were always thinking of getting rid of workers rights since at least Cameron. 0 hour contracts to suit the employers. Ok for some but not for many. Employers have been getting away with these things for years now. So disgraceful. Tories don't do workers rights. Hope Labour will really help with these things now. This man is a good MP.
@@firey9998 Not some. The majority of people on them have always been perfectly happy with it. It's condescending people not on them that know best that are anti them.
@@danielwebb8402 the new legislation will make it entirely the employers choice to be 0 hour or not. Surely everyone supports more choice so businesses and employers can find what works for them?
@@firey9998 but only 1 winner as per usual and that's all the big companies These companies abuse this by Getting people to work all hours and not having to pay holiday pay or sick pay And can just push you off the cliff when ever it suits them
Don't they need a licence to operate? Shame if it were canceled by zoom call, while being presented with an similar licence to operate to replace it , obviously with a 20% uplift, "inflation" and what not , yadda yadda insert any excuse , accept it or don't. Good day.
As an ex British gas engineer this is amazing news! The way we were treated was appalling and the distinct lack of media coverage at the time was baffling.
Was the same with my British gas engineer husband.....Despicable the way you were All treated. Not long after, I was made redundant after 12 years in same way from my well-trained job, working in Electricity showroom......told over the phone our shop would close....6 months pay, completely disgraceful and with 3000 made redundant as you say, absolutely ignored by MSM.
My next door neighbour is still a British gas engineer, he talked about the way you guys were treated. He said the buying of the EV van fleet was part of a deal made with the tories for them to celebrate conversion to ev in the business sector across the media whilst turning a blind eye to the fire and rehire.
MSM and businesses and the conservative side of politics work hand in glove to screw over workers. As an Aussie, I'm shocked at the lack of workers protections / benefits. Makes sense why so many Brits are moving here.
It's literally what's happening. If you end conditions where employees are not given full employment rights then that is the system which allows zero hour contracts to exist. It also means massive companies like amazon or uber cannot withhold certain standards from their employees by claiming they're not employees.
@@keithparker1346 There are some people for whom zero hours contracts are genuinely beneficial. I can also see companies just having people on a 2hr contract if 0 is banned. The real issue is finding a way to guarantee employees the terms that they were led to expect throughout recruitment.
As @keithparker1346 said, not all zero hour contracts are exploitative. When I was at uni they were vital in allowing me to take time to study when needed.
He can't understand how these people are able to sleep at night, because he is somebody who feels empathy, has compassion and a sense of justice. Not qualities that are associated with the CEOs and others in business, who are interested in only one thing: enriching themselves, their friends and supporters.
There needs to be a middle ground, but his way of thinking is effectively charity. He would rather a company become uncompetitive and fail than take drastic a action to survive as re-hire at a later time. This leads to less investment in the uk as a company can't be run well. Look at UK rail networks, unions have led to the retention of jobs that could be modernised, wages are increased past what can be afforded...rail fares cost 2-3x more than a cheap flight to the same location.
Zero Hours suits me as a contractor - but then I am highly skilled in an area where there's a shortage...but for your normal, everyday job, it's disgusting
Every time I've been at threat of redundancy it's those in the union who have gone first. Never once seen a union actually help someone keep their job.
Unions have their benefit no doubt but only when they work for the people. Far too many times I've seen nothing but bullies, members taking the absolute piss of the system. But every now and again I come across one officer who is reasonable and slightly restores my faith.
@@nickxcore74. Which principles did Corbyn use when he imposed a 3 line whip to support a minority Tory government get Article 50 through parliament before he knew what the Tories were planning ?
@@californiadreamin8423He had little choice, if he hadn't just as many folks would be complaining like you are now. Who was the shadow Brexit minister anyway what was his role?
@@moldyolddough1 You’re saying Corbyn had little choice but to support the Tories …with a 3 line whip !! Well he could have adhered to Labour Party policy which was to remain in the EU. He could have forced the Tories to reveal their plans and compelled them to be scrutinised by parliament and the country first …..couldn’t he !! PS. I’ve been complaining ever since I realised how Corbyn betrayed working people over leaving the EU, very many of whom don’t realise what he did , while his supporters turn a blind eye .
The Tories created profit for an individual over people such as PPE contracts and everything else. Businesses copied this as it was deemed acceptable to create vast profit and not salarise workers properly. Labour now has to establish proper law so it never happens again. Tories know they are responsible. When I was on 0 hours in the NHS it was hell. I'd start on Monday; be reviewed about my work on Wendesday and left to do the most demanding work on the Friday so I would have an emotional breakdown. I have a disability and they said not to register it as you wouldn't get hired by managers....sick and broken....
@@tdtm82You looked into Wes Streeting and his donors?….My daughter also works in the NHS and you don’t have a clue of what’s coming. Although Starmer has probably said it’s not true so you believe him because he’s absolutely a man of his word. I mean it’s not like he’s ever gone back on his word before now is it?…..He’s not been on the side of the workers during the rail strikes, so I wouldn’t hold my breath personally, but each to their own.
I'm not British, so I have only a vague knowledge of backbenchers in the UK, but this guy sounds good. High goals for workers rights, but is well able to talk to them
I doubt it because Barry mentioned in a previous interview that the House of Lords are full of Developers. He told the listeners to do their due diligence on the House of Lords.
My company that employs over 200 mobile workers is completely ignoring the mobile working directive that clearly states travel to our first and from our last job of the day is part of our working day, I am on a final written warning for continuing to point it out... Hopefully this will help :)
I also have this problem. Constantly bullied that I must leave the house by 8am and be at my first job by 9am. I don't know of any other job where people start work from home but they just start to work before their official start time. Imagine your boss saying I want you in the office for 8am, logged into your computer, reading work emails but I'm not paying you till 9am. These lot won't do anything they're too busy pampering their own nests.
@@Bringthegoose I am in the union (unite) the union rep said to me they were not interested in pushing it further, i have later found out they the union has used what this company thinks is a grey area to win other things, I could even name the union rep who sent me emails saying they are not interested in defending in this issue.
That is infuriating. I quit my last job for the same reason. Ended up being 12 hours days if stayed on site the full time. Absolute joke. So your HR department do nothing???
Isn't it just wonderful to have grown ups in charge again? People actually trying to make things better for others, rather than simply feather their own nests at our expense? After 14 years, I'm still getting used to it. What P&O did was unforgivable. I used to sail with them regularly - but absolutely never again.
Nah, I'd rather have Sunak back! Energy crisis going on, food crisis, housing crisis, etc, etc, and those twats were more worried about a few boats and Rwanda. Or school mathematics... 🙄
If Labour do what they look positively to do then they'll be in power for years and years. No way the Tories have people's rights on their minds when they look at number 10.
A bunch of friends of mine worked at Qwest and there was a "fire drill" once they were ALL in the parking lot, a guy with a bullhorn announced that they could call security to make an appointment to get their personal property back, but the facility was closing.
"If we can't trust honourable members, who can we trust?" Literally nearly anyone else. The last crop of honourable members have turned the title into a slur on someone's character.
I just felt he was a little too polite about it. For example he would never say "Sir" is about as socially valuable at this point as a blue tick on twitter.
As a freelance artist who also takes bar shifts, I've had a lot of 0 hour contracts that are respectful, compassionate and mutually beneficial. But I stand with my fellow workers who want to push against it.
Read the small print as ever. Starmer has been less than honest with many policies, i.e the "Sovereign wealth fund" doesn´t really work like the Norwegian one, he´s effectively just merged two organisations Sunnak created. It would be good if he did do this. Likewise, another big reform should be ending the absurdly long probation periods in the UK. The fact that you don´t get full employment rights until 2 years after starting (in most cases at least) is ridiculous. No employer needs 2 years to decide if someone is competent or not.
It also isn't a sovereign wealth fund in the true sense that an actual national wealth fund comes about when a country is in the rare fortuitous circumstance that tax revenues eclipse spending to such an extent that it cannot be spent on public services. Only a few countries on the planet are fortunate enough to be in that position and we are definitely not one of them. Honestly for us to even be calling it a national wealth fund is embarassing. The Norwegian wealth fund is worth something like 1.5 trillion dollars.
They'll be amending the 2 year timeframe to a day 1 right for employees under the new employment bill. This has been discussed quite a lot in employment law circles in my network, I'd expect to see it transposed into legislation quite soon. Labour will be implementing a new Employment Bill within the first 100 days of forming their Government, so hopefully this particular change will be included in the Bill. We shall wait and see!
I can remember the likes of Hancock, Cleverly and Gove saying they wouldn’t let it happen again when P&O did the fire and rehire, they of course did nothing.
One of my political idols. I'm glad that politics still has a place for soft-spoken, thoughtful and genuine men like Barry. He feels like a throwback to a vision of British democratic socialism before the neoliberal cynics took over.
Yes nobody knowing how much a week to live on. People turning up to work and being told to go home. Yes this is true from big companies. I have seen it myself. Costing workers to come in to work and then not a days work for them!
@@aspie2901 You might be surprised. Very few of the old reliables left! Labour left things better for workers last time in power but many forgotten conveniently already. Many too young to even know.
Barry is a cracking MP. Honestly, he never dodged a question, was very charismatic etc. He is the type of politician that Labour needs more of. It's unfortunate Labour threw Corbyn under the bus, Corbyn would have been a better leader than Keir Starmer by a country mile.
That’s why Tesco’s changed everyone’s contracts to make them more ‘flexible’ in favour of the company and you either signed or left. This type of contract were already common in retail and being on an older style contract at the time, I had no idea. I left.
Rhetoric is cheap, so I'll believe it when I see it, but it is funny and an indictment of our economic system that we have to consider giving workers the most basic Capitalist pledge in a contract is considered to be revolutionary rather than the bear minimum an employer could do.
Very optimistic piece. Unfortunately, “about to” isn't the same as has. You're counting your chickens before the eggs have hatched here. It wouldn't exactly be the first abandoned commitment if it gets quashed. I won't believe it until I see it really happen.
@@charlieleedham5265 On the face of it, the Labour should be the pro worker party but their latest actions towards workers suggest they're not which is why I'm not hopeful. For example: 1) Watering down Angela Rayner's new working deal (specifically with regard to zero hour contracts). 2) Cultivating ties with big businesses so that now they receive more party donations from businesses than workers. 3) Removing left wing members of the party such as Faizan Shaheen which then reduces their leaning toward worker rights and issues. 4) Stacking the party with those who are clearly on the Labour right. As I say, I want to be proven wrong but these things don't make me hopeful
@@charlieleedham5265 I agree you cannot judge based on things they haven't happened, and that's not what I'm doing here. I'm judging Labour on the things they have done, which are the 4 things listed above. Past behaviour is a good indicator of future behaviour and that's why I'm not hopeful. However, as I say, really want to be proven wrong, but I'm not hopeful.
It's good to hear an MP say that they only experienced hardship on rare occasions, and aren't trying to pretend that they have had it rough and instead remains humble and talks about the hardship his colleagues have faced. There's nothing wrong with admitting you may have had a more priviledged life than others, many of us have, as long as you're at least honest about it and try to still push for doing the right thing.
Labour who refused to pay equal pay to women workers for decades in Glasgow and even when they got caught they fought against it in the courts that's Labour who introduced the equal pay law 😮
The majority of workers rights came from being part of the European Union. Yes the labour party was in power, but the legislation was driven from Europe. The government did in act the legislation so they can claim that but the reality is it was driven from our membership of the European union.
Ofc he is lying, look at what he promised leaseholders about abolishing that system. He even had a documentary made about leasehold scandal and now labour has abandon those commitments to leaseholders.
would that be the "revolutionary worker rights" that the UNITE refused to endorse because they had been "rowed back" and "watered down" since their first introduction?
Talking a good game is one thing. Actually making it mean what workers think it means ... we'll see. They've stated their intent. Now they have to deliver.
Most of these "protections" aren't coming in the form of actual laws that bind employers to a behavioural code, but are rather opt-in recommendations for them to adopt. They're pitiful.
My contract is up in August. I’ve been there over 3 years, but I won’t get a permanent one until 4. The industry I’m in are very good at waiting until the nth hour before saying they aren’t renewing contracts. It should be 2 years. After 2 years, workers should be permanent. The number of people I know recently who, due to the same issue, have struggled to pay childcare, mortgages, etc… If Labour want to change something that would make a big difference, do that!.
The great majority of the working class feel that there is a disconnect between them and the political system. And who could blame them? Time after time we've seen a total disregard for the working people of this country. From the MP expenses scandal where the public discovered that some of our MPs were literally criminals, using tax payers money to fund their luxurious lifestyles, all while there was about 4 million kids living in poverty in the UK at rhe time. We had the second room tax, where we saw the poorest in society, be punished for being allocated a home with more rooms that what was deemed needed for the occupants, and were then financially punishing them for this by taking the difference from their disability payments. Then we had that clegg guy who told us that if you voted for him and the lib Dems, he would make higher education affordable or even free to all that needed it, only for him to then after being elected into the coalition, not only doesn't vote against the rising of tuition fees, but votes for the motion. So when this guy talks about the working people not trusting anything a politician says, or seeing any real relevance to politics and their lives, then I say, can you blame them?
I voted reform, but this is a sensible and needed policy. I'm self employed and theirs no more security in PAYE, the cons took that away, sick pay is a disgrace too, we're humans we break, we should be supported, we've made the employer money.
Id also like to see false self employment in construction dealt with. Where companies force workers to become self employed so that they don't have any employers responsibilities but in fact the workers are being treated like employees. It's the "done thing" in the trades, no workers rights, companies don't pay employers NIC, win win win for the business owners
though in this case the "workers" should be negotiating the terms not having them dictated to them - though Im guessing that doesnt happen. The trades are effectively sub=contracting part of the work - but the key there is contracting..... its you that dictates the pay for that contract (or its negotiated at least and you dont have to take the contract). Id also add its far from just the trades..... Many Many sales jobs are the same. You work for the company but your paid commission based on the sub contract so again no employee liability. Its not necessarily a BAD thing - its likely that eventually ALL jobs will be this - your CONTRACTED to do a job not employed. Well ALL have no benefits - BUT well ALL be aware of it - and the cost of those contracts will be higher as there factored in at the negotiation stage, but in order for it to work it would need to be ALL workers in the same system (inc public sector).
@@paulmapp8306 agreed that theoretically it's not a bad thing but in reality as a "self employed" labourer working for a building company, you have no say in terms of pay/ working terms, you have to request time off and it can be refused, you have to wear a uniform, the company owner dictates how and when work should be done, if you let on that you work for anybody else you get fired Yet at the same time, you have to provide your own tools and van, can be fired with zero notice (as in half way through a day and only get paid the half day), get no holiday pay, have to have your own liability insurance, have to pay for an accountant, get injured at work and get your pay docked for that day.. All for £12/hr
@@ef7480Don't know what your lol is about! Can be assured will never obtain a proper living wage from both Tories and Reform. Why not? They wanted to take all British workers out of the ECHR that follows working rights gone as will human rights. Grave indeed. Thank goodness they both have no chance in hell to do that.
The UK should consider adopting Australia's Industrial Relations laws. Thanks to our progressive Labor government, while the UK had Thatcher, Australians now enjoy 1162% more disposable income than their UK counterparts. On the average wage, that's AUD 2,208 per month. Bloody wild. (ChatGPT did the figures). 😂
he said we need a 'kinder society'. well why haven't they made one! pretending to be a different shade of blue and still being the cause of death and misery isn't setting an example.
I worked for a retail company on a 6 month contract that got extended on a monthly basis until I was nearly working there a year. At that point I was told I was out if contract and I left. If I had been there a year then I would have been deemed as permanent. I had watched this game being played with some colleagues. So I took great delight in telling them where to go, as I had found work on the meantime. Employers are b@stards, remember that.
Nice to know there weren’t any workers rights before now, guaranteed we will be seeing lower wages, worse conditions and more politics in the work place. Joy.
@@landrover4483 you do realise a whole chunk of the population was employed as “temps” so companies could specifically avoid “benefits” like holiday pay, just because you were privileged doesn’t mean everyone was
@dogglebird4430 and I was referring to the very British way people were employed as “temps” at the same place, for years, specifically to avoid giving them benefits.
@dogglebird4430 I have plenty doubt. The UK unfortunately is still very much a “conservative” country and unless forced by industrial action or outside bodies, won’t make the changes needed. Unfortunately workers are not unionised and united enough to stage significant industrial action to force said changes. If we were we would have done so years ago while wages were stagnating
Here is a great policy for equality in the work place, bonuses should be equal across the whole business. So if the CEO is getting £100,000 in bonus, then so should the people on the shop floor. For too long people in suits have got rich off of the labour of the working class. The workforce on the shop floor is the spine of the company and they work just as hard (probably a lot harder) than any CEO. NO MORE PIZZA, PROPER BONUSES AND PAY RISES NOW!!!!!!
4:32 it's easy for them to sleep at night because they never confront the consequences of their decision. That's why they do it over zoom. I was in a round of layoffs and everyone had a 1:1 meeting with HR to find out if they were staying or going. The manager in charge of the layoffs went to all the meetings of the people who were staying, but not the people who were going. I walked into the lobby of the building to have my meeting and saw him there laughing with someone - I knew then that I was going.
