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TORY plans to help bosses use agency staff in strikebreaking roles will spark “social unrest” and would be a “recipe for racists,” Unite warned yesterday.
If the Trade Union Bill becomes law companies will be free for the first time to draft in temporary staff to scab on striking workers.
Unite says the move could breed the kind of resentment within workplaces and communities last witnessed during the 1984-85 miners’ strike.
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
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
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
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP