Labour Party conference votes to restore right to take solidarity strike action
On Monday 28 September delegates at Labour Party conference voted unanimously for a motion committing the party to fight the Tories' Trade Union Bill and the next Labour government to "legislate for strong rights to unionise, win recognition and collective bargaining, strike, picket and take solidarity action." Those words came from a motion promoted by the Right to Strike campaign , submitted by a number of Constituency Labour Parties and in complete form by two, Broxtowe and Chesterfield. This is the first time since the early 1990s that the Labour Party has supported the crucial right to...