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LABOUR will reverse the Trade Union Bill “within the first week” of taking power, John McDonnell has said.
The shadow chancellor branded the anti-strike laws “an attempt to destroy trade unions in this country” and “an attack on basic democratic rights” at a public rally in support of Jeremy Corbyn at the Communication Workers Union conference on Tuesday night.
He said his party would do all it could to resist the passage of the watered-down Bill in its final stages, but added: “If they do get it through … within the first week of a Labour government we will reverse it.”
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
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
