Member

Another clear purpose of the Bill, though it is not spelled out in Amendment 1, is to allow trade unions to increase their memberships by giving them powers to push into non-unionised areas. Trade union membership has been declining; only about 20% of the workforce is signed up, and they are disproportionately in the public sector. If trade union membership were a good thing, it would not need this Bill to give the unions power to barge into workplaces uninvited. The real purpose of the Bill is to provide payback to the Labour Party’s paymasters. That too should be in the purpose clause if it is to be comprehensive.