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OVER 100 people marched through Dundee yesterday in solidarity with workers lobbying MPs in Westminster against the Trade Union Bill.
Delegates poured out of the Scottish TUC’s women’s conference to hear Labour Councillor Richard McCready praise the “near unanimous” decision by Dundee City Council to oppose the Bill and refuse to implement the attacks on check-off and facility time, as well as commit not to use agency workers to break strikes.
He called on the Scottish government to state its opposition to the Bill “loudly and clearly” and pledge their support to local councils fighting against the “disgraceful attack on the right to organise.”
ROZ FOYER explains the significance and tradition of today’s St Andrew’s Day March and Rally
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
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