This trade union bill will undermine our fundamental human right to protest | Vince Cable and Frances O’Grady
by Vince Cable and Frances O'Grady from on (#KZZX)
Britain does not have a strike problem - so why the need for new legislation? The government should be working constructively with unions to raise productivity
The Conservative government plans legislation later this year that will heavily circumscribe workers' already limited freedom to take industrial action.
Neither the coalition, nor the previous Labour government, saw any need to revisit strike legislation. So, what has changed?
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The Conservative proposals are ideological rather than practical and have a weak evidential and legal basis
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