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TORIES pledging to set up a Conservative trade union movement were branded hypocrites yesterday, after it emerged that the project’s leading light had a record of voting against workers’ rights.
Essex MP and Tory deputy chairman Robert Halfon has announced plans to launch the Conservative Workers and Trade Union Movement — which would operate within his party but offer membership to those outside.
Mr Halfon “There will be a voice for moderate trade unionists who feel they may have sympathy with the Conservatives or even just feel that they’re not being represented by militant trade union leaders.”
May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
In part IV of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells how austerity minister Francis Maude’s attempt to destroy the PCS Civil Service union totally backfired
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street