Workers at union-busting transnationals like Amazon today are continuing the Tolpuddle Martyrs' heroic struggles for human rights and liberty, union GMB said yesterday.
On the 180th anniversary of the six Dorset labourers' conviction for "administering an illegal oath," GMB said it was pushing for it to be made a crime for firms like Amazon to stop workers forming unions.
On March 17 1834, James Brine, James Hammett, George Loveless, James Loveless, Thomas Standfield and John Standfield were found guilty of forming a union and later sentenced to seven years transportation to Australia.
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