Member

Significant reference has already been made to today’s reality that not every employee is represented by a trade union and that, of the 20% or so who are, the majority are in the public sector. Nearly 80% of workers, therefore, are not trade union members, including care workers, teaching assistants, agency staff and cleaners—people in roles that are often low-paid, insecure and lacking representation. Widening the scope of the right to be accompanied in the way that the amendment proposes would empower those workers.