Jeremy Corbyn is planning to rip up all trade union laws since 1979
Britain could be sent back to the dark days of the 1970s when flying pickets and workers' strikes caused chaos, according to plans revealed by top Labour figures
JEREMY Corbyn is planning to rip up all trade union laws since 1979, senior members of his team have revealed.
Videos have emerged of the Labour leader’s allies promising to adopt a long list of demands from the hard-left Institute of Employment Rights group.
The footage exposes party plans to take Britain back to the dark days of the 1970s when flying pickets — now banned — closed down factories, mines and ports across the UK.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell is filmed telling a rally that Labour would use the IER’s manifesto as a “blueprint for the comprehensive revision of workers’ rights” when in office.
Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey and party chairman Ian Lavery also backed the IER manifesto, which calls for the repeal of trade union laws since 1979.
This would end restrictions on walkouts in essential services such as police, prisons, fire and health.
MOST READ IN POLITICS
It would allow “sympathy strikes” so unions could down tools over issues they’re not involved in, and flying pickets.
Tory MP James Cleverly warned: “Union barons could hold the country to ransom and disrupt the lives of millions.”