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THE government claimed it will “consider” ideas that could boost strike vote turnouts yesterday in response to a Trades Union Congress call to bring ballots into the modern age.
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said a law change to allow electronic voting would see participation soar in a letter sent to Business Secretary Vince Cable.
She penned the letter after Prime Minister David Cameron attacked trade union democracy in a bid to divert public attention away from the poverty pay that sparked last week’s strike.
MARTYN GRAY asks TUC congress to endorse measures that would help stop the present exploitation of seafarers
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