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TORY plans to impose restrictive thresholds on strike ballots would violate international law, a leading labour lawyer said yesterday.
Daniel Blackburn, director of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights, believes the Tory manifesto pledge would break standards on workers’ rights set by the United Nations.
The legal expert said it would put Britain’s strike laws on a par with those of Nigeria and Belarus, among the world’s worst countries for workers.
The ITUC has warned that a decline in labour rights is threatening democracy, writes MARK GRUENBERG
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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