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WORKERS should consider a general strike to defeat the Tories’ new anti-union laws, trade unions affirmed yesterday.
Congress unanimously passed a softer motion damning the Trade Union Bill as an attempt to “outlaw legitimate protest, stifle free speech and choke off the resources of [the Tories’] political opponents.”
The Bill, which passed its second reading in the Commons yesterday with a majority of 33, imposes strike ballot thresholds and places heavy restrictions on picketing and union political funds.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
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