Rights for Agency Workers

What is the government up to? it wants to set up a commission to investigate what rights agency workers should have. That sounds like a delaying tactic to me and many others and a sop to big business. Agency workers should be given the same rights as proper full & part-time workers get. At the moment agency workers are the second class workers of the British economy. It cannot be right that agency workers do the same job as ordinary employees of a company but get less pay and less rights over overtime pay, holidays ect.

The labour party was invented to represent the interest of the workers in Parliament, i joined the party over its commitment for a minimum wage & pledge to sign the European Social chapter. Those were the workers issues of the 1990s giving agency workers the same rights as ordinary employees is the employment issue of this decade and the government should do what it is supposed to do, stand up for fairness in the workplace and leave exploitation up to the Tories.

Nationalisation at last!

At last the government has done the right thing and nationalised Northern Rock. Why it has been so timmid when it comes to natinalisation i think is a throw back to the 1980s when privatisation was cool and nationalisation was out of date and old fashioned.

The government rather than being shy about nationalisation should be making a strong case for its return in certain situations. Take the Railways, ok Network Rail is state owned but why not bring back the whole railway under state ownership? The privatised system is costing the taxpayer twice as much as when it was state owned and the service is worse! Another case is for water to be nationalised. Fed up of expensive water bills? water companies are private monoplolies licensed to print money. Water is a national resource and as such should be owned by the people, not private proffiteers. So come on Gordon don`t be shy make the case for nationalisation.