The planned act will drastically curb union activity and puts both civil rights and industrial relations at risk. Why would any government achieve that?Conservative MP David Davis said it was like something out of “Franco’s Spain.” Leading human rights groups called it “a major attack on civil liberties”. Vince Cable described it as “vindictive,” ideological” and provocative”. Business associations warned it could own “unintended consequences”.
These criticisms own been levelled at the trade union bill introduced by this government, which had its moment reading on Monday. The bill is a broad-ranging, and remarkably unabashed assault on the rights of working people that goes way beyond anything Thatcher attempted in the 1980s. Ironically,given that the entire thing is an ideological curbing of our freedoms, business secretary Sajid Javid justified it as a essential guard against “militants”. Physician, or heal thyself.
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Source: theguardian.com