The Political Attack on Workplace Representation

📖 The Scoop

As the authors of this timely report note in their opening sentence, There is no shortage of laws protecting the right to be a trade union member and to take part in the activities of a trade union. And yet, as the report goes on to analyse, there is daily evidence that a growing number of trade union representatives are suffering from blacklisting and victimisation. Moreover, this is happening against a backdrop of a sustained and vindictive campaign of attack from the government, the press and from right wing pressure groups aimed at silencing the union voice at work. The publication opens with Forewords from Bob Crow, General Secretary of the transport union, RMT and from Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the public services union, PCS. It concludes with a useful appendix on the rights of trade union representatives in other countries.

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