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We’ll All Scrap Tory Strike Law
say Corbyn, Burnham, Cooper and Kendall

ALL four Labour leadership candidates vowed yesterday to resist and repeal proposed Tory laws that threaten to make legal strikes impossible.

At a huge trade union hustings in London, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall joined Jeremy Corbyn in opposing plans to impose turnout thresholds on all strike ballots.

But only Mr Corbyn promised to go further and reverse restrictive Thatcher-era laws that left Britain in breach of international conventions on employment rights.

  • The Institute of Employment Rights is holding a one-day conference on human rights at work at GMB offices in London today. For more information visit www.ier.org.uk.
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