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THE Tories’ Trade Union Bill has received the thumbs-down from the British public, who deem it a “waste of police time” in a new poll published today.
Over three-quarters of respondents thought the proposed legislation would lead to misuse of the force, which would be obliged to control the use of popular protest aids such as banners and loudspeakers.
A similar number also disapproved of the policing of trade unions’ social media ahead of a strike, according to the YouGov poll.
Forty years on, TONY DUBBINS revisits the Wapping dispute to argue that Murdoch’s real aim was union-busting – enabled by Thatcherite laws, police violence, compliant unions and a complicit media
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
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
