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THOUSANDS of trade unionists took the Tolpuddle martyrs’ oath yesterday after TUC leader Frances O’Grady damned the Tory trade union Bill as the same persecution that the martyrs faced in 1834.
The six farm labourers were infamously transported to Australia in 1834 after forming a trade union and taking the oath: “We will, we will, we will be free.”
Speaking at the annual Tolpuddle martyr’s festival, Ms O’Grady drew comparisons between their persecution and the government’s new anti-union legislation.
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more
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
BILL GREENSHIELDS invites all and sundry to this years’ Derby Silk Mill Lockout March, Rally and People’s Festival on June 7