JOURNALISTS vowed to fight the Tories’ vicious Trade Union Bill “by whatever means necessary” at their conference at the weekend, writes Peter Lazenby.

Delegates at the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) conference in Southport voted unanimously to resist the Bill, pledging to back workers taking industrial action in opposition to the legislation and work with other unions to “build a campaign of non-co-operation and resistance” to the anti-union legislation.

The conference voted to “deploy all possible means to defy and frustrate its operation” if it becomes law.

After the unanimous vote, NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet told the Morning Star: “This Bill is a crude attack on working rights and a hostile attempt to take away rights hard fought for over many years.

“We won’t stand by and let this ideological onslaught undermine our unions, or allow trade union activity to be criminalised. Whatever the legislative outcome we will use our collective strength to robustly see off this attack, by whatever means necessary.”