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WORKERS “have a duty” to defy anti-strike measures if they are passed into law, John McDonnell has said.
The shadow chancellor said the Tories’ “scorched-earth policy” was an attempt “to kill off trade unionism in this country,” and that trade unionists “have a human right to resist it.”
The Trade Union Bill, which now only needs the approval of the House of Lords before it becomes law, will impose arbitrary thresholds on strike ballots.
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
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
