Party by the internal procedures, will be magistrates, trade union balloting.
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Proposed lation' last week.
organiser, the Communist THE TORIES have decided to take the teeth out of any industrial action taken workers. They want to ban solidarity action, interfere in the unions' and destroy the basis of closed shop agreements.
Industrial and trade union practices regulated by and the High Court.
Certification Officer (remember Heath's Registrar of Trade Unions?) would vet Tory leaders will draw up 'codes of practice to back up the series of laws they have proposed. These codes will condition the decisions taken in the High Court to which more disputes would be The Tory proposals for new labour laws are designed to turn the clock back to the beginning of the century. This is the true meaning of the gently-worded 'Working Papers for Consultations on Relations Legispublished by the Conservative Employment Secretary on Monday of Any tolerance of these opening shots would be followed by more laws to remove workers' rights and ham-string Yet the Tory documents actually have the nerve to invite the TUC to 'formal consutations' on how to bring aboul The main thrust of the proposed legislation is clear. The union leaders are only invited to join in talks with the Tories on the dots and commas.
It should be obvious to everyone that these Tory proposals are only the first steps toward implementing the Tory aim the balance of power decisively in favour of the bosses.
No wonder it has been welcomed by the employers' Confederation of British TUC general secretary Len Murray is correct to describe the whole thing as a major challenge to the existing rights of workers and their unions.' That being the case, there can be no for going into 'the consultations' with the Tories about the wording their laws will have on the The TUC General Council, based on past decisions reject anti-union legislation, has a mandate to refuse to enter into discussions to chain *This article is taken from the Morning