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DAVID CAMERON was criticised yesterday for refusing to meet TUC leader Frances O’Grady over the Tories’ Trade Union Bill.
Ms O’Grady requested a meeting with the Prime Minister following the Tories’ re-election in a letter to Downing Street sent on May 15.
Five months later, Mr Cameron has not even bothered to respond to the head of Britain’s trade union federation.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
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
