Member

Why are people not in unions? Sometimes in our Committee debates, the inference has been that the only reason that workers are not in a union is because of wicked anti-trade union laws or perhaps evil Tory government policies, but I would say that it is rather more complicated. In just the past week, the Labour Peer, the noble Lord, Lord Winston, a lifelong member of the British Medical Association, resigned from the BMA over its handling of strike action. Meanwhile, the Cabinet Minister championing this very Bill, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, has reportedly been suspended from her own union, Unite, in a dispute over her membership and the Birmingham bin strike. Whatever the merits of either case, they demonstrate that even the most senior, well-connected, pro-union individuals can find themselves without the support of a union.