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WORKERS should consider a general strike to defeat the Tories’ new anti-union laws, trade unions affirmed yesterday.
Congress unanimously passed a softer motion damning the Trade Union Bill as an attempt to “outlaw legitimate protest, stifle free speech and choke off the resources of [the Tories’] political opponents.”
The Bill, which passed its second reading in the Commons yesterday with a majority of 33, imposes strike ballot thresholds and places heavy restrictions on picketing and union political funds.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER
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