THE TRADE UNION BILL
“A savage and vindictive
assault on uk employment rights” Caroline Lucas MP
On new laws to restrict trade unions. “For a Government
elected by only 24 per cent of eligible voters to propose a 40 per cent minimum
turnout for public sector strikes reeks of hypocrisy.(…) If the Bill is passed
into law, I would be prepared to join trade unionists and others in taking
non-violent direct action to resist it.”
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The government
proposals will impose greater restrictions on trade unions than any other
voluntary sector membership organisations
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Employers will be
able to bring in agency workers with a view to breaking strikes, regardless of
the consequences for health and safety.
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Trade union
protests and pickets will be subject to levels of public and police scrutiny
and controls that go far beyond what is fair and acceptable in a modern
democracy.(see TUC Briefing on TU bill).
“The right to strike must be protected. We will not accept
restrictions that make the withdrawal of our labour meaningless by allowing
agency replacement staff. We will not accept restrictions that make strike
action near impossible to organise. Our trade unions need to work
together to resist any such changes to our rights. “ Romayne Phoenix,
Green Party Trade Union Liaison Officer
The Green Party sees the main cause of
environmental crisis as being the way businesses and governments treat everyone
and everything on the planet as things to be exploited for profit. All Green
Party policies AIM to bring about major changes in politics and economics The
TU group and the Green Party have supported unions in dispute such as the NUT,
UCU FBU, PCS RMT,GMB and Unison. Our
elected representatives have fought for workers’ rights from local level to the
European Parliament.
The
Green Party has consistently opposed anti-union laws and will seek their repeal
at the earliest opportunity. The Green Party Trades Union Group is affiliated
to the Campaign for the Repeal of the Anti-Trade Union laws .
THE GREEN PARTY:
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Opposes
privatisation and PFI schemes
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Campaigns
for fair pay and decent conditions
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Opposes
the sale/privatisation of council housing and demands affordable social
housing.
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Campaigns
for investment in public transport within a publicly controlled, integrated
transport system.
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Supports
public services such as health and education funded through taxation, with the
well off paying their fair share.
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Campaigns
for fair trade
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Supports
a Basic income for the unwaged which would remove means testing, Job Centre
bullying and pressure to take low paid jobs.
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Encourages
unorganised, temporary and migrant workers to join a union
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