This report outlines what is required to both outlaw the compiling and use of blacklists and to compensate those who have been blacklisted.

Book; Morning Star; EDM 2093

As we approach the 2nd anniversary of the ECJ decisions in the Viking, Laval, Ruffert and Luxembourg cases, this free, one day joint IER/SERTUC conference will bring together trade union activists.

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In December 2007 the European Court of Justice – the “Supreme Court” of the European Union - delivered a crushing blow to trade unions when in the Viking and Laval decisions it decided that the right of businesses to freedom of establishment must take priority over the right of trade unions to take industrial action to safeguard the interests of their members.

East Lindsey, Posted Workers and ECJ decisions

Professor Keith Ewing, President of IER, argues that politicians need to address the contradictions and stupidity of the Posted Workers’ Directive and recent European Court of Justice decisions. If not, he predicts current expressions of discontent will continue to boil over as the recession deepens.