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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps speaks to the media in central London, June 20, ahead of RMT train strikes.
GRANT SHAPPS has “lost the plot,” RMT’s Mick Lynch charged today after the Tory Transport Secretary launched another tirade against trade union rights.
Writing in the Daily Mail newspaper, the Welwyn Hatfield MP evoked Margaret Thatcher’s assault on working-class power in the 1980s and vowed to “take on Luddite” union leaders who are “victimising” the public.
His threat came as a national strike of RMT and TSSA members at Network Rail and several train operating companies crippled services across the country.
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
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
