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TORY ministers were forced into a major climbdown over one of the most “mean-spirited” parts of the hated Trade Union Bill yesterday to avoid a humiliating defeat.
The government surrendered over its plans to scrap the check-off system, which allows union members’ subs to be collected directly from their wages.
Business Minister and former Tesco boss Baroness Neville-Rolfe announced the retreat during the report stage of the Bill in the Lords yesterday.
Labour’s long-promised Act has scraped through the Lords. While the law marks a step forward, its lack of collective rights leaves workers short-changed — and sets the stage for a renewed campaign for an Employment Rights Bill #2, argues TONY BURKE
In part IV of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells how austerity minister Francis Maude’s attempt to destroy the PCS Civil Service union totally backfired
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
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP