industry and the privatised utiliIts incidence has trebled in the 1990s.
ACAS reports demonstrate the decreasing success of recognition ¡for union rights!
• need to dismantle the Tory terror, not trim a tentacle or two.
We need not an isolated change here • and there but a new, integrated, code • of workers' rights, a blueprint for i strong trade unionism that we can • campaign for.
Starting with organising and recogni•tion. But going beyond it.
We need a new charter for union • rights hinging on:
* The right to organise * The right to recognition * The right to strike * The right to picket * The right to take solidarity action * The right to make our own union * The right to a minimum wage * The right to take political action.
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run-up to the drives even where ballots record high levels of support and in an and leadership. increase in victimisation. In the private sector less than 20 per cent of the workers in enter:We need a new charter • WE NEED to go beyond the piecemeal approach of Blair and the TUC. We As new challenges and possibil- R D ities presented themselves, as we palit entered a new period in the general election an a ider with the installation of Blair as of v Labour leader and the relaunch of the TUC in 1994, we have witnessed crucial failures of policy La GI i vot At the centre of this has been Aided renewed emphasis on partnership the l Continued over, pages 10-11)
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with employers, embrace of the General Council's frontman,