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by Our News Desk
MORNING STAR management committee members pledged at the weekend to put the paper at the heart of resistance to the government’s draconian Trade Union Bill.
“This is not a Bill that can be picked apart,” warned Tony Burke, trade union co-ordinator for the People’s Press Printing Society which publishes the daily paper of the left.
“We need to kill the Bill in its entirety and the Star needs to co-ordinate with the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom, Institute of Employment Rights, People’s Assembly and others to promote the widest possible opposition.”
Business Secretary Sajid Javid’s Bill will let employers replace striking workers with agency staff, criminalise picket lines of more than six people, restrict the right to strike and could even bar union members from speaking about industrial action on social media.
Elected member Anita Wright slammed the “nauseating” triumphalism of a Tory Party gifted a majority by just 24 per cent of the electorate.
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko said the Bill proved that “the all-out class war we predicted in the event of a Tory victory is being waged,” but added that the phenomenal success of Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign for the Labour leadership “was putting socialism on the country’s agenda for the first time in years.”
The committee expressed its thanks to outgoing PPPS secretary Chris Guiton, praising his huge contribution to improvements at the paper over the last year, and re-elected Bob Oram and Carolyn Jones as chair and vice-chair of the society.
