TUC agrees to hold collective bargaining summit within six months
THE TUC will convene a summit in the next six months to agree a strategy to secure collective bargaining across most sectors of the economy.
Communication Workers Union leader Dave Ward moved a motion calling for the summit and for the TUC general council to follow it with a published collective bargaining strategy that can be agreed at next year’s Congress, so the labour movement can implement a common plan to restore workers’ right to collectively bargained terms and conditions.
Mr Ward said: “We delivered the new deal for working people,” which Labour is now committed to implementing. “Labour didn’t deliver it, it started here six or seven years ago.
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