UNITE has hailed a Supreme Court decision on union rights as a “historic” legal judgment after Britain’s highest court backed calls to oppose undermining collective bargaining.
The union said that the outcome of its six-year case will affect union members across the country after Kostal Ltd, a car components manufacturer from Rotherham, sought to undermine union negotiations by offering unlawful inducements.
After Kostal and Unite signed a union recognition agreement, the next round of wage negotiations in October 2015 resulted in a formal union ballot of members in which 80 per cent voted against the offer.
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
