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Is Liz Truss heading for the 1870s?
The vague threats to restrict our trade union rights even further may well break agreements made when Queen Victoria was on the throne, writes KEITH FLETT
Liz Truss at an event in Leeds as part of her campaign to be leader of the Conservative Party and the next prime minister
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FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
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ONE of the two contenders for the Tory leadership has threatened to further restrict the activities of trade unions, an enduring obsession of the Thatcherite right.
The detail is inevitably lacking, but Liz Truss wants “minimum service levels” where public-sector workers have balloted for a legal strike. The implications of this are deeply concerning — even if probably not fully thought through by Truss’s team.
RMT leader Mick Lynch, writing in the Daily Mirror, argued that Truss wants to go back to 1871, the date of the Act that legalised trade unions. TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady has warned of a fundamental attack on the right to organise and an assault on democracy as understood across Europe.
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