SENIOR trade unionists are calling for a mass mobilisation of the labour movement to defeat the Trade Union Bill — including potentially putting thousands of people on strike pickets in defiance of the proposed new law.
PCS union general secretary Mark Serwotka fired the opening salvo on Tuesday night, calling for “millions of trade union members” to defeat the Tory Bill at an STUC meeting in Glasgow.
He said “if the government attempts to use agency workers to break strikes, we will mobilise thousands on the picket lines.”
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