Brendan Barber Work Quotations

By accepting flexible work requests from their female employees but not from their male staff, employers are helping reinforce the gender pay gap, when instead they could be enabling young dads to play a more active role in the raising of their children.

No longer should British workers like the Peugeot workers in Coventry find that they are the cheapest and easiest in Europe to get rid of when the going gets tough - and we send them a message of solidarity today.

Unions do believe in proper regulation - but this initiative shows workplaces can do even better when managers and employees work together.

For four years the agency workers directive has been blocked by various governments, including our own, and now it is destined to sit on a Brussels shelf for many more years to come,

This is a major victory for the simple union principle that people at work should not have to breathe in toxins.

Everyone knows we work the longest hours in Europe,

The increase will see well over a million low-paid workers with more cash in their pockets, many of them women working part-time,

Agency workers deserve a better deal...Today's announcement gives a green light to those unscrupulous employers who will continue to exploit agency workers.