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Rhoda Grant
A SCOTTISH Labour MSP has lodged a proposal for a draft Bill which would see the right to food enshrined in Scots law.
Highlands & Islands Labour MSP Rhoda Grant has put forward the Right to Food (Scotland) Bill, which seeks to enshrine the right in law, and have an independent statutory body to oversee food policy to ensure no-one goes hungry in Scotland.
The passage of this Bill would mean that the Scottish government would have responsibility for ensuring that food is available, accessible and adequate for everyone.
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