Tonight, David Cameron attempts to drive through a bill which will make it ‘close to impossible’ for trade unions to take any lawful industrial action.
Senior Tory MP David Davis this weekend complained that parts of the Trade Union Bill (which gets its second reading this evening) resemble something General Franco would have come up with. Amnesty International and Liberty have issued a joint statement criticising the Trade Union Bill as a “major attack on civil liberties in the UK”.
It’s not the individual measures as much as the cumulative effect on trade unions in both the private and public sector (including the NHS) that is the problem. But the individual measures are remarkable in their authoritarianism.
