T&G delegate Jackson Cullinane warned congress yesterday that the progressive STUC policies were "not worth the paper they're written on if they can't be backed up by effective collective trade union action."
Backing calls for an end to the anti-union laws, Mr Cullinane ridiculed government use of "fairness, balance and level playing fields in industrial relations when one side can't take solidarity action and the other side can take secondary action by bringing in scabs."
Rail union RMT general secretary Bob Crow said: "People warn me about the dangers of Michael Howard being in Downing Street on May 6, but I don't want the same policies spouted out by new Labour."
Moving a successful composite on taking united action to oppose legal restrictions on trade unionists, Mr Crow said that he wanted "John Smith's policies," noting that the late Labour leader had been in favour of full workplace rights from day one of employment.
PCS delegate Alan Brown said that the government's "tinkering round the edges of Tory legislation" means that workers must still jump through hoops to take strike action.
He warned that a new Labour government would "need to be dragged kicking and screaming to repeal the anti-union laws."
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