The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE

MARTYN GRAY asks TUC congress to endorse measures that would help stop the present exploitation of seafarers

The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC

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