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BORIS JOHNSON’S threats to ban effective strike action on the railway by imposing minimum service levels is a bid to legalise “forced labour” which no-one in the industry wants, Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan warns.
Even the privateers milking Britain’s railways for profit are “crapping themselves” at the prospect of a strike ban that would “sour industrial relations at every company in the business” and which they have no idea how to implement, Mr Whelan told the Morning Star.
Though Britain is already in breach of multiple International Labour Organisation requirements it has signed, further restrictions on the right to strike would create “massive civil liberties issues” that would tie the government in knots, the train drivers’ union leader said.
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