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THE Tories have been accused by trade unions of “betraying” the legacy of the Magna Carta by planning to restrict the fundamental human right to strike.
Prime Minister David Cameron will lead today’s jamboree marking the 800th anniversary of the signing of the charter.
But the TUC said his government’s plan to impose strike ballot thresholds were a “stain” on its legacy and the Star revealed in April that lawyers believe that the Tories’ proposals would breach International Labour Organisation conventions.
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
