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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 14 July 2025
Debate
Employment Rights BillContribution
I will conclude with the German example. Germany exists very successfully not with a closed-shop system but with a system of works councils, collaborative work between employers and employees and voluntary unions. For all those reasons, it is vital that we explicitly and emphatically rule out the closed shop.
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