Trade Union Bill Articles

It is nauseating to watch people who have been in the Labour party for a matter of months, and who probably didn’t vote Labour last year, denouncing the GMB, Britain’s third biggest trade union, for backing Owen Smith. The manner of their denunciation follows the...

Having presided over a string of seemingly effortless wins against the government in recent months, the assumption might be forgiven that shadow leader of the House of Lords Angela Smith currently has one of the easier jobs in Labour politics. She is keen to reassure...

Fresh from their defeat on Sunday trading last week, the Government last night suffered a humiliating triple whammy of defeats in the House of Lords over their draconian and blatantly partisan trade union bill. First, the government was defeated on its plans to choke...

Clause 10 of the trade union bill, if it is passed, will mean trade unions will only be able to collect contributions to their political funds from members who actively opt in by written notice. This is a big change from what currently happens, where union members...