Strikes: Cover by Agency Workers Debate
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Lord Whitty
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Strikes: Cover by Agency Workers
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Lord Callanan (Con)
If the view of the modern Labour Party is that capping prices is effective in a modern industrialised market economy then I truly despair.
Lord Whitty (Lab)
My Lords, do the Government actually believe that there is a right to strike? In the railways dispute and in the potential disputes for airline staff, the votes were overwhelmingly in support of strike action and these strikes are absolutely legal, yet the Government seek to use secondary legislation to completely undermine the trade unions. Has Jacob Rees-Mogg convinced the Tory party that we should go back to the 18th century Combination Acts?