Unions demand intimidation strike action rights in return for Labour party bribe donationsTrade unions are demanding that the Government relaxes laws restricting secondary picketing strike action in exchange for their bung financial support for the Labour Party.At a meeting with ministers and senior Labour figures later this month, trade union leaders are expected to make demands including relaxin...
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NeueArbeitMachtFrei on 15th Jul 2008 (via neuearbeitmachtfrei.blogspot.com)
Teachers are on strike. Civil servants are on strike. University lecturers are on strike. The Grangemouth refinery, which supplies much of Scotland with oil products, is on strike and closed down. Council workers striking. The Labour government is taking us back to the wild 1970s, when workers resorted to strike action against a Labour government in a destructive frenzy, which kept the UK firmly n...
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AndrewNutt on 17th Jul 2008 (via andrewnutt.blogspot.com)
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband today called on BBC staff not to black out David Cameron's party conference speech by going on strike next week.
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Scotsman on 1st Oct 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
The Labour party rejects trade union demands to make strike action easier, easing pressure on an under-fire Gordon Brown.
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BBCPolitics on 27th Jul 2008 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Jackie Ashley complains in her column today about Labour misters going on ‘mic-strike’ saying that it will lead to Labour being beaten so badly that it might not be able to come back. Ashley is speaking for a lot of people in the Labour party, one hears frequent complaints these days about Minister who are prepared to pick up the cheque each month but not to put in the hard yards. The ...
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Spectator on 7th Sep 2009 (via spectator.co.uk)
Labour paid back the Union paymasters with a provision in the law that makes in illegal for an employer to sack workers during the first 12 weeks of a strike. So we have the absurd case of BA who could replace the staff on strike in the bat of an eyelid unable to do so because Labour got bribed by money from the Unions ( which Labour bunged them anyway from the Tax payer via the Union modernisatio...
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ManInAShed on 20th May 2010 (via atoryblog.blogspot.com)
Labour has ruled out making less restrictive strike laws a manifesto commitment for the next general election.
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ePolitix on 28th Jul 2008 (via epolitix.com)
A number of Labour MPs are planning to take part in a Commons strike on Budget Day in a move that will intensify the controversy over the party's links to the unions.
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Telegraph on 21st Mar 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Unite, the union behind the British Airways strike, is using its multi-million pound political operation to "reclaim the Labour Party for the workers", a union document has disclosed.
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Telegraph on 16th Mar 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The trade union behind the planned British Airways strike has donated nearly £1 million to the Labour Party, it has been disclosed.
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Telegraph on 24th Feb 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband urges BBC staff not go ahead with a planned strike next week during the Conservative Party conference.
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BBCPolitics on 1st Oct 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
