September/October is that time of year when the great and the [not so] good troop off to their conference jamboree at either a tired seaside resort or a vibrant city centre. For those of us in the broad labour movement we have the joy of attending two conferences within three weeks, the TUC and the Labour Party. This year the two organisations have been kind enough to book the same venue (Manchester) so I don’t have to learn my way round twice.
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When it is a vote in favour of industrial action.
Not content with their slash and burn cuts programme the ConDems are now looking to see if they can go even further than the Thatcher government of the 80s by turning democracy on its head and adding to western Europe’s most stringent regulations on industrial action ballots.
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The CBI report issued today (Making Britain The Place To Work) which calls for tighter controls on trade unions calling for industrial action is nothing more than a sick joke presumably aimed at what they now see as their friends in government.
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