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POLITICIANS trying to push through vicious anti-strike laws were left squirming yesterday when they were forced to defend their own right to sit in Parliament.
Charity boffins, anti-blacklisting campaigners, lawyers and union leaders appeared before a parliamentary committee to warn that legal challenges to the Tories’ Trade Union Bill were “totally inevitable.”
Tory MPs scorned activists for raising concerns about compulsory armbands on picket lines — but were visibly ruffled when Blacklist Support Group secretary Dave Smith said most would have their elections invalidated if they faced the restrictions they are seeking to impose on strike ballots.
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
Susan Galloway talks to ASH REGAN MSP about her “Unbuyable” Bill, seeking to tackle the commercial sexual exploitation of women in Scotland