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MINISTERS’ mad rush to curb trade union rights is completely at odds with the political priorities of the public, a new poll showed yesterday.
Independent research by Survation found that just 2 per cent of people ranked the Trade Union Bill among their top three priorities.
Yet the Bill was among the first to be tabled by the Tories after the general election and could clear the Commons after its third reading today.
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
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
