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WORKERS could be allowed to cast their ballots for strike action online in future after Tory ministers were forced to make major concessions on the Trade Union Bill yesterday.
The government accepted a Lords amendment which will pave the way to e-balloting for industrial action.
The switch may help unions overcome a new 50 per cent turnout threshold being imposed on strike ballots.
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
DANIEL GOVER considers the procedural complexities awaiting a Private Member’s Bill in its passage through Commons and Lords
