{"id":4815,"date":"2015-07-15T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T09:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=4815"},"modified":"2015-07-15T14:43:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T13:43:07","slug":"denying-workers-a-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=4815","title":{"rendered":"Denying workers a voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ministers were urged to rethink the restrictive proposals in the Trade Union bill that threaten to cast unions as \u00e2\u20ac\u0098the enemy within\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Unite said today (July 15).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnite said the best way to increase voting in industrial action ballots was to develop secure workplace balloting and introduce online voting, as the Conservatives were doing to select their candidate for next year London\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mayoral elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bToday the government has slammed the door of David Cameron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0098One Nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Britain in the face of millions of trade unionists,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite general secretary Len McCluskey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese measures aim to deny working people a voice and to tilt power still further towards the rich and big business, who funded the Tory re-election campaign. Tory claims to be the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 can be seen fully for the fraud that they were.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI appeal to the government to think again,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bDo not go back to the days of trade unions being \u00e2\u20ac\u0098the enemy within\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf the government is truly concerned about increasing participation in strike votes, then why not work with us to develop secure workplace balloting and introduce online voting, just as the Tories are doing with their London mayoral selection?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI say to the prime minister, if it is good enough for your party then surely it is good enough for Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s workers?\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 McCluskey argued.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8220;And the party funding proposals are a cynical and partisan attempt to make sure that only the Tories have the cash to fight future elections,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he went on to say. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bEveryone concerned with our democracy should unite to oppose them.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers were urged to rethink the restrictive proposals in the Trade Union bill that threaten to cast unions as \u00e2\u20ac\u0098the enemy within\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Unite said today (July 15). &nbsp; Unite said the best way to increase voting in industrial action ballots was to develop secure workplace balloting and introduce online voting, as the Conservatives were doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[344],"wps_subtitle":"Bill slams door on \u00e2\u20ac\u0098One Nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Britain ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4819,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions\/4819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}