Unions hit back after Lord Mandelson urges Labour to water down new deal for workers
TRADE unions have hit back after Lord Peter Mandelson wrote in the Sunday Times today that Labour should “slow down” on boosting workers’ rights.
The Blair-era Cabinet minister said the new deal for workers — which Labour has pledged to implement within 100 days of winning office — “must not be rushed,” should be done in consultation with business and “should not go further than the settlement bequeathed by New Labour,” which infamously left Thatcher’s anti-union laws intact.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said that “Peter Mandelson earns his corn working as a consultant for private corporations.
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