Member

Let us be clear about what this means in practice. If you are a union member who wants protection, particularly in the case of a dispute, but do not want to attend meetings, join picket lines or read emails late into the night, this Government’s message to you is tough—you signed up and, if the union wants to chase you on a Sunday evening, there is nothing in law to stop it. That is not support for working people. That is the legislative codification of a political monopoly—one where union structures are protected, promoted and made permanent, but where individual members are slowly deprived of the right to define the terms of their own engagement.