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DAVID CAMERON unintentionally came clean about Tory attempts to ban dissent by working people yesterday when he admitted the Trade Union Bill amounted to “anti-strike laws.”
Government ministers had insisted the Bill was not an attack on trade union rights, but the Prime Minister revealed its real intention just hours after the proposals were published.
Labour MP Ian Lavery told the Star it was clear the Bill represented “the greatest attack on working people in 30 years.”
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP