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SCOTTISH TUC branded a new clause of the Tories’ vicious Trade Union Bill tabled yesterday as a “nakedly discriminatory action” against public-sector trade unions.
The clause will ban public-sector employers from offering check-off arrangements to staff, a system whereby trade union members have their union dues deducted directly from the payroll rather than collected separately.
STUC general secretary Grahame Smith said that the measures meant it “could not be clearer” that the Tories are seeking to “make it harder for employees to maintain union membership and to wrap up unions in red tape to divert our reps from their core task of looking after members.”
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
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
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
