Union organisation in Next, Amazon and Sports Direct driven underground like the French resistance TUC congress told
Blacklisting shows that the next Labour Government should make it a criminal offence for hostile employer to deny workers their basic rights to seek support of a trade union when they have problems at work says GMB
The TUC Congress in Bournemouth has backed a GMB call for it to be made a criminal offence for hostile employers to interfere with the civil rights of workers to combine and seek support of a trade union when they have problems at work. See notes to editors for a copy of speech by GMB.
Martin Smith GMB National Organizer said:
“So hostile are employers like Amazon, NEXT and Sports Direct that union organisation is driven underground adopting the tactics of the French resistance or human rights campaigns in totalitarian regimes.
Such hostility in not rare and left to themselves that is what many employers do as blacklisting 3,214 construction workers shows.
Oppressive activity at work which denies human rights should be a criminal offence.
GMB calls on the next labour government to make it a criminal offence for an employer to deny workers their basic right to organise and seek support of a trade union when they have problems at work.”
