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Press proposals for a royal charter to establish a new system of self-regulation have been rejected, Culture Secretary Maria Miller told the House of Commons yesterday.
Ms Miller said that the industry plans did not comply with some of the "fundamental principles" of the Leveson report on press regulation, including on independence and access to arbitration.
The cross-party proposals for a charter agreed by Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour and backed by Parliament will now be put forward for approval at a specially convened meeting of the Privy Council on October 30.
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
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