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CAMPAIGNERS seeking to defeat the Tories’ new anti-union laws must not pin their hopes on them being voted down in Parliament, union leaders have warned.
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka told a packed meeting on Wednesday night that unions must meet any attempt to criminalise pickets with “tens of thousands of people picketing.”
The best-known part of the new anti-Trade Union Bill will impose arbitrary thresholds on strike ballots, but speakers at the Kill the Bill launch meeting warned that measures attacking picketing rights and authorising the mass use of scab labour could be even more damaging.
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
