The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158126   Message #3737534
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
15-Sep-15 - 06:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Corbyn Landslide
Subject: RE: BS: Corbyn Landslide
Back to the 1970s? With this Trade Union Bill the government is effectively trying to get back to the start of the last century.

Requiring pickets names to be supplied to the authorities, and names of "leaders", regulating what people can wear or say, requiring notice of any demonstration, facilitating the importation of strikebreakers, making it harder for unions to support political parties, insisting on balloting arrangements designed to make industrial action virtually impossible, and continuing to deny workplace or online voting.

MP David Davis described these proposals as being on the same level as the anti-union laws in Spain under Franco - and he is a Tory.

Any decent person ought to oppose this, regardless of their politics. And they should recognise a moral imperative to find a union appropriate for their job, if they aren't already a member, and join it.