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PEERS told the Tories yesterday that they must water down partisan changes to party funding concealed within the Trade Union Bill.
A cross-party Lords committee rubbished the government’s claim that forcing trade unions to adopt an opt-in system for political funds would have no effect on the Labour Party.
Labour predicts that it could lose up to £1 million a year and the committee agreed that the party would face a “sizeable negative impact.”
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
