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THE Tories’ Trade Union Bill is a “declaration of class war” that trade unionists will need “killer instincts” to resist, the Scottish Morning Star conference heard yesterday.
Institute of Employment Rights director Carolyn Jones warned that the Bill was about “removing opposition to austerity.”
She told the conference that the number of days lost to industrial action was just a fraction of those lost due to workplace injuries, which will only worsen as facility time is cut for reps.
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
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
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street