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TORY plans to impose restrictive thresholds on strike ballots would violate international law, a leading labour lawyer said yesterday.
Daniel Blackburn, director of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights, believes the Tory manifesto pledge would break standards on workers’ rights set by the United Nations.
The legal expert said it would put Britain’s strike laws on a par with those of Nigeria and Belarus, among the world’s worst countries for workers.
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
