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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps speaking during the Conservative Party Spring Forum at Winter Gardens, Blackpool, in March 2022
“INSULTING” Tory proposals to let bosses use agency workers to break strikes would be “reckless and endanger public safety,” unions warned today.
The furious backlash came after Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said new legislation was needed to “prevent disruption and stop the country being held to ransom.”
The Welwyn Hatfield MP told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper that the potential change might be introduced via secondary legislation, which can be signed off by ministers “very fast.”
On the eve of the 157th Trades Union Congress, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, celebrates victory in his campaign to get dignity for drivers at work
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more