THE Scottish TUC vowed at the weekend to support any trade union forced to break the law in order to defy the “draconian” Trade Union Bill should it be implemented in Scotland.

At the Scottish People’s Assembly AGM on Saturday, deputy general secretary Dave Moxham said that “any trade union that chooses to defy any aspect of this law, whether it is the picketing requirements, whether it is the ballot requirements, whether it is any aspect of this law, will have the full support of the STUC if they choose to do that.”

Mr Moxham said that the Bill represented a “real opportunity” to build the trade union movement. He said: “if we can say that the Tories’ intention is to attack our capacity to oppose them on the streets, to oppose them politically, then we need to redouble our efforts.”