John McDonnell says: Scrap the anti-union laws!
John McDonnell MP spoke to Solidarity about the campaign for a Trade Union Freedom Bill Some of us have been working for trade union reform for five years. We have lobbied for change from Labour, but it has been like crying in the wilderness. The official TUC response has been to point to the legislation the Labour government has introduced, to the rights that have been won. Yet these changes and concessions have been fairly minimal. Tony Blair’s says the UK has the most restrictive trade union laws in western Europe. He is right, and that situation has been maintained. But two things have...