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THE Unite union has called for the King’s Speech to include a plan for steel, binding employment rights and an end to energy “rip-offs.”
Tomorrow’s final legislative programme before the next general election should herald a “positive programme” for public ownership, the union said yesterday.
Unite also called for a comprehensive employment Bill to protect workers from abuse.
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
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says