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Three attacks on the right to strike
Severely rattled by the ongoing rail dispute, the Tories are looking at ways to force ‘minimum servicing,’ agency strike-breakers and a massive increase in damages onto the unions, writes Professor KEITH EWING
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THE government response to the RMT dispute is straight from the Tory playbook.
A simmering resentment of a trade union, pick a fight with the same union, control the management of the dispute and use the dispute for partisan political ends which serve no public interest, with passengers and workers treated as collateral damage. Use it also as cover for even more attacks on the right to strike.
So far the strike has generated three proposals to change the law, adding to the burden of restrictions introduced since 1989.
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