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Delegates at the opening session of the STUC congress in Dundee yesterday condemned the continuing attack on workers’ rights and trade union freedoms.
It was “a litmus test” for government at all levels — including Holyrood — STUC vice-president June Minnery said.
“Either they seek to support an agenda for collective bargaining or they cease with the platitudes about inequality, low wages and decent work.”
NICK TROY lauds the young staff at a hotel chain and cinema giant who are ready to take on the bosses for their rights
In part IV of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells how austerity minister Francis Maude’s attempt to destroy the PCS Civil Service union totally backfired
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
