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Agency scab plan a ‘recipe for racism’
Unite union warns Trade Union Bill risks sparking social unrest
TORY plans to help bosses use agency staff in strikebreaking roles will spark “social unrest” and would be a “recipe for racists,” Unite warned yesterday.
If the Trade Union Bill becomes law companies will be free for the first time to draft in temporary staff to scab on striking workers.
Unite says the move could breed the kind of resentment within workplaces and communities last witnessed during the 1984-85 miners’ strike.
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