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Their union Prospect accuses V&A boss Tristram Hunt of refusing to negotiate
A TORY MP admitted yesterday that he couldn’t justify Prime Minister David Cameron’s strike vote thresholds when MPs are elected with less than 50 per cent support.
Alec Shelbrooke said he did not support Mr Cameron’s proposals in a Radio 4 Today programme debate with TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady.
The Elmet and Rothwell MP was speaking on behalf of the union-bashing Trade Union Reform Campaign group of Tory MPs that includes Thatcher-worshippers Liam Fox, Matthew Hancock and Dominic Raab.
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
