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LAWS allowing bosses to bus in scabs from employment agencies will be fast-tracked by the new Tory government, Business Secretary Sajid Javid bragged yesterday.
Employers are currently banned from drafting in temporary agency staff to blackleg during legal strike action.
But — to cheers from the CBI big business lobby — Mr Javid promised that the anti-democratic attack on workers would be one of the first laws of the new Parliament.
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
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
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
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