David Cameron is under increasing pressure to tear up strike laws to prevent militant trade unions holding Britain to ransom.His former leadership rival David Davis uses the article below to make a provocative call for millions of public sector workers to be stripped of their right to take industrial action.
Transport workers, firefighters, NHS staff and even employees of the gas and water industries should no longer be able to ‘make the customer suffer’, Mr Davis says.
Transport workers, firefighters, NHS staff and even employees of the gas and water industries should no longer be able to ‘make the customer suffer’, Mr Davis says.
His intervention, which will infuriate union leaders on the day London firefighters called off their Bonfire Night strike, adds to a growing chorus of demands for the Prime Minister to set higher bars before strike action can be declared lawfully.
London Mayor Boris Johnson, who has seen the capital disrupted by a series of Tube strikes, says the threshold should be set at 50 per cent of balloted union members.
There is currently no minimum number of union members who must vote in a ballot for strike action, meaning a militant few can bring about industrial action.
There is currently no minimum number of union members who must vote in a ballot for strike action, meaning a militant few can bring about industrial action.
Mr Davis, MP for Haltemprice and Howden, goes further, insisting the fact that large parts of the public sector have become ‘state-funded monopolies’ means a review of employment legislation is long overdue.
