TURC- heir to a long tradition of union busting in Britain

The Trade Union Reform Campaign led by the disgraced Tory MP Aidan Burley, is the latest in a long line of business-funded union busting organisations in Britain. The most notorious being the Economic League, founded in 1919 by a group of industrialists and a Tory MP under the name of National Propaganda. It was wound up in 1994 after its McCarthyite activities in blacklisting workers were exposed: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Spies_at_Work

Alexander’s Gambit – bypass unions to undermine pensions strike

The announcement by Danny Alexander MP on today’s BBC1 Marr Show that he would be bypassing unions and writing direct to all public sector employees outlining the Government’s position on pensions should surprise nobody: http://www.independent.
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