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Labour's Ian Lavery
LABOUR MP Ian Lavery reiterated calls to overturn the 2016 Trade Union Act today as a new parliamentary petition demanding its repeal garnered hundreds of signatures.
The petition, set up by Welsh Labour member Jack Meredith, warns that the Tory legislation “restricts the actions and powers of unions with the implementation of an arbitrary turnout threshold” of 50 per cent to make a strike legitimate.
It points out that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s 43.6 per cent vote share at the 2019 general election was far below the same threshold despite his boasts of a landslide victory.
In the final part of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explains how in 2018, after years spent rebuilding the PCS into a leading force against austerity, a damaging rupture emerged from within the union’s own left wing
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
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
