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LABOUR could lose up to £40 million between every election if the Trade Union Bill becomes law, GMB general secretary Paul Kenny warned yesterday.
Labour bosses are braced for a £6m fall in trade union funding when an opt-in system to the political levy is imposed on unions by the Tories.
The knock-on effect to Labour funding would force the party to reduce its number of staff and relocate to cheaper offices, according to an internal document leaked to the Guardian.
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