'On the day of last week's Tube strike the Continuity CBI launched yet another missile in its inimitable version of the class war against working people and their organisations. The extremists of the British business lobby proposed ever more vicious restraints on the right to strike, including daily financial penalties on trade unions and a requirement that trade unions give longer notice to help employers prepare for a walkout’, says Professor Keith Ewing in making the case for Labour MP’s to support the Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill tabled by John McDonnell MP.
http://morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/96219
The Bill is due for its second reading on 22 October and teh United campaign has produced a useful briefing for lobbying of MP’s to attend this key debate on Trade Union freedom and support the Bill. At least 100 MPs will be required to attend, to ensure it proceeds to the next stage.
http://www.unitedcampaign.org.uk/bill.php
A demonstration in support of the Bill which will take place at the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday 13 October at 12:30 followed by a rally in Committee Room 14 at 2pm before a 'Lobby Your MP' session at 15:30:
http://www.unitedcampaign.org.uk/sitebody/events/rally2010.html
