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TORY ministers made their anti-union laws even tougher after “cosy” meetings with the CBI bosses’ lobbying group, the Morning Star can reveal today.
Documents obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests reveal the true extent of CBI influence over the Trade Union Bill.
As the Bill is debated in both the Commons and at TUC Congress today, the Star’s investigation shows:
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
Labour’s long-promised Act has scraped through the Lords. While the law marks a step forward, its lack of collective rights leaves workers short-changed — and sets the stage for a renewed campaign for an Employment Rights Bill #2, argues TONY BURKE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
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