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Trade Union Bill

Proceeding contribution from Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party) in the House of Commons on Monday, 14 September 2015. It occurred during Debate on bills on Trade Union Bill.

I agree completely, and I will give some examples confirming what the hon. Lady describes. Introducing online voting and securing workplace balloting would be modernisation. We keep hearing about modernisation from Conservative Members, and we will come on to deal with it.

The other danger about thresholds relates to issues of equality and, in particular, gender equality. We know that in some male-dominated trade union workplaces women who have young families are affected when there are shift changes, and thresholds would have an impact on the rights of women workers to pursue industrial action on that basis. That happened recently in the case of a fire brigade control service in Essex.

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Reference

599 c785 

Session

2015-16

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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