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CONSERVATIVE attempts to effectively ban strikes were dealt a blow yesterday when a United Nations agency confirmed that the plans could break international law.
The Tory manifesto, launched by PM David Cameron on Tuesday, includes a pledge to put a 50 per cent turnout threshold on all strike ballots.
Nurses, teachers and firefighters are among workers facing even bigger barriers under the Tory policy, which would require at least 40 per cent of eligible voters to back action in “essential services.”
Burnham launches his campaign to return to Westminster
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
LUKE FLETCHER outlines Plaid Cymru bold plans for wide-ranging policy consultations with trade unions in Wales
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