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Labour MP Ian Mearns addresses the RMT conference
[Julian Brown]
“ALL means necessary” must be explored in opposing the government’s anti-strike Bill, RMT parliamentary group chairman Ian Mearns told union delegates in Bournemouth today.
The Labour MP lambasted the Conservative government over its minimum services legislation, which proposes to render effective strike action unlawful and severely undermine the ability of workers to win better pay and conditions industrially.
He told the union’s AGM: “While Labour is committed to repeal the legislation, we cannot, of course, wait for that.
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Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP