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Labour MP Dennis Skinner has told Parliament’s expenses watchdog to stick a 10 per cent pay rise until working-class people’s wages are unfrozen and full collective bargaining rights restored.
The left-wing veteran told the Star yesterday how he rattled off a sharp two-sentence letter to parliamentary standards agency Ipsa chairman Professor Ian Kennedy after a “wind-up” by the body’s new £120,000-a-year chief executive Marcial Boo on the eve of the Trades Union Congress.
Mr Skinner said the timing of the Ipsa chief’s public statement on MPs’ wages was a deliberate provocation to trade unionists that was designed “to get a reaction.”
The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
The General Strike exposed the power of the working class — and the limits of its leadership, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today