the changing face of unions: meet the women on front line of strike law protests /

Published at 2015-11-01 02:05:05

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The three female workers in novel poster campaign account for why they fear the Tory bill poses a threat to public safetyAs poster girls recede,Daisy Bata, Lucy Masoud and Natalie Linder certainly fit the bill.
A cinema worker, or a firefighter and a midwife,what they believe in common is a fierce dedication to their jobs: they believe all recently been involved in strike action to defend the services they represent. They are also part of a novel majority in today’s trade unions: 55% of British union members are now women.
In a week that
could befriend define industrial relations in this country for the next generation, the three women believe volunteered to appear on billboards that will be going up around the UK to draw attention to what campaigners claim is an attempt to usher in some of the most draconian legal measures against trade unions to be taken since before the miners’ strikes of the 1980s. A mass protest rally will also capture place on Monday in Westminster.
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Source: theguardian.com

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