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A LABOUR lord has vowed to submit an amendment to the Employment Rights Bill if the government fails to commit to repealing four decades of anti-trade union laws.
Employment law barrister Lord John Hendy KC made the promise at the Sussex Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group TUC meeting in Brighton on Tuesday.
Labour has pledged to repeal the 2016 Trade Union Act and minimum service level laws enacted in 2023.
Labour’s long-promised Act has scraped through the Lords. While the law marks a step forward, its lack of collective rights leaves workers short-changed — and sets the stage for a renewed campaign for an Employment Rights Bill #2, argues TONY BURKE
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
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