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TORY ministers were forced into a major climbdown over one of the most “mean-spirited” parts of the hated Trade Union Bill yesterday to avoid a humiliating defeat.
The government surrendered over its plans to scrap the check-off system, which allows union members’ subs to be collected directly from their wages.
Business Minister and former Tesco boss Baroness Neville-Rolfe announced the retreat during the report stage of the Bill in the Lords yesterday.
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
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
