[IER] The attacks on collective bargaining run against mainstream economic guidance

[Ben Sellers]

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The attacks on collective bargaining run against mainstream economic guidance


"The response of the Tory government (whoever leads it) to the cost-of-living catastrophe facing the working class is not to control prices, tax the profiteering energy companies, or take steps to increase incomes.
No. Instead, it published last Friday the Transport Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill. This will impose yet further restrictions on the capacity of workers to protect their wages by taking strike action where persuasion fails.
The new law is likely to be followed by legislation requiring a union to ballot its members on strike on every offer made by the employer in the course of negotiations.
Remember that we have all the controls on trade unions that the Thatcher governments imposed in the 1980s, plus the Trade Union Act 2016.
And this year, further restrictions on picketing have been accompanied by legitimating agency strike-breakers and increasing the limit on damages payable by trade unions."

John Hendy KC and Professor Keith Ewing examine the latest attacks on collective bargaining and trade union freedoms (from the Morning Star)


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The 'Forced Labour' Bill
The effect of the government’s petty-minded and authoritarian threat is to raise the stake in the rail workers’ strike. They are no longer simply fighting for the principle that their pay should keep up with inflation, or to protect the industry from privatisation, writes David Renton 


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Building the fight against Tory anti-trade union laws
A new wave of austerity is set to be accompanied by new attacks on our trade union rights. But the reality is the Tories are in trouble, and we can beat back their attacks on our rights, argues Sarah Woolley.
  


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From Pentonville to P&O: Union Rights & Tory Wrongs – Campaigning For Free Trade Unions
National Conference, Saturday December 3, 11.00, Mander Hall, NEU Mabledon Place London WC1H 9BD.

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Watch: A bonfire of workers’ rights: how should the labour movement respond?
Special lecture at the Marx Memorial Library by Ben Sellers, Director of the Institute of Employment Rights in conversation with Laura Pidcock, National Secretary of the People's Assembly.

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