TRADE unions launched a major legal challenge to Tory government attacks on the right to strike today.
The High Court began a two-day hearing of the case, brought by social justice law firm Thompsons Solicitors on behalf of 11 unions co-ordinated by the TUC.
The coalition, which includes Unite, GMB and the National Education Union, decided to act after Downing Street changed the law to allow bosses to employ agency workers to break legal industrial action.
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY


