Reposted from Huffington Post
So now we know what the Conservative manifesto will say about industrial action.
Strike ballots will require a 50% turn out to be valid. Breaches of the picketing code of practice will be criminalised. A whole new list of rules and regulations will be introduced that will be almost impossible for unions to meet. So even when a union meets the threshold requirement, employers will have plenty of new opportunities to get injunctions against a strike.
This goes far further than anything Mrs Thatcher did in limiting the right to strike. Such a turn out threshold is very rarely met by ballots involving more than a small workforce. It adds up to an effective end to the right to strike for many groups of workers – normally the kind of measure that we associate with dictatorships, not democracies.
No doubt we will be told it…
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So now people who go on strike will be jailed for it.
The solution is obvious: ensure the Tories do not win the 2015 general election.
Yes. That is the solution.