Member

I particularly welcome the Government’s new schedule 2, which will update frameworks for trade unions, reflect modern work practices and rebalance industrial relations. It will ensure that the size of a workplace bargaining unit will be frozen and cannot be increased during the recognition process. A recent example of where this new schedule would have supported workers occurred at Amazon. When my union, the GMB, first applied for statutory recognition there, Amazon reported that it had 1,400 employees working at the site and refused to have any discussion on trade union recognition. Amazon workers faced a David versus Goliath fight in having to prove that they had at least 40% support in the workplace for union recognition. As amended, the Bill will vastly simplify that process, with the new schedule freezing the bargaining unit at the point of application. We want to be able to bring good practice and good employers to our constituencies.