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Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union on the picket line outside Birmingham Airport. The government is reported to have considered targeting Border Force workers for the ban.
A BAN on trade union membership for some workers was among proposals for the government’s next attack on workers’ rights, according to emails leaked from No 10.
In a move reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher’s ban on trade union membership at the government’s intelligence gathering base GCHQ in 1984, the ban was considered by the current government along with banning strike action in certain sectors and forcing unions to provide minimum levels of service during strike action, the government’s eventual choice.
The government is reported to have considered targeting Border Force workers for the ban.
On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD
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
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
