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The Supreme Court in Parliament Square, London
A SIX-YEAR battle for more than £400,000 in compensation for 56 workers at a South Yorkshire electronics firm will be taken to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Unite has accused German-owned company Kostal UK in Rotherham of bypassing union negotiations after workers voted to reject a pay increase in 2015.
Kostal contacted workers directly, threatening them with loss of a Christmas bonus and the sack if they did not accept the pay proposal.
Forty years on, TONY DUBBINS revisits the Wapping dispute to argue that Murdoch’s real aim was union-busting – enabled by Thatcherite laws, police violence, compliant unions and a complicit media
In part IV of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells how austerity minister Francis Maude’s attempt to destroy the PCS Civil Service union totally backfired