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THE Trade Union Act became law yesterday on what was branded a “dark day” for working people.
The Bill was given royal assent after clearing its final hurdle in the Lords on Tuesday night following an eight-month battle to block it in and outside Parliament.
“The Bill’s progress today is simply a dark day for workers and for those who speak up in their defence when power is misused,” said Unite general secretary Len McCluskey.
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
