Th right to breathe seems like something worth dying for.

That basically happened:

> The Clean Air Act 1956 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted principally in response to London's Great Smog of 1952

> When the "Great Smog" fell over the city in December 1952 the effects were unprecedented: More than 4,000 people are thought to have died in the immediate aftermath,[4] raising public concern, with fog so thick it stopped trains, cars, and public events.[5] A further 8,000 died in following weeks and months.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_1956

Every regulation like this is a band-aid, and more band-aids will just make the EU even more quintessentially the EU.

If the governance focused on restoring negotiating power to workers, you wouldn't need to write to your MP to go to the toilet.

>If the governance focused on restoring negotiating power to workers

The right for workers to form a union is also a worker's right worth protecting.

But this is not a workable solution for every single employment relationship.

Are you saying I should have to negotiate the number of toilet breaks I get?

Yes, some people's work conditions are very bad and something needs to be done about that. That's beside the point.

If you need to ask the government to give you the right to use the bathroom, or to give you the right to not check your email, you've already lost.

What? That makes no sense.

This is the exact reason you even have a government, to protect your rights.

That is the point though. Some of these people have indeed "already lost" to the companies employing them and need assistance from a government or other powerful organisation to bring back some balance to that relationship.

Well, yes, you've already lost because your employer is taking that away from you?

So, your proposal is? Leave everything as is and change nothing?