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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.
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
