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Government scraps proposed changes to trade union funding
The government is to drop a controversial proposal to change trade union funding arrangements after a threatened rebellion in the House of Lords.
Under plans included in the trade union bill all civil servants and staff in the wider public sector who belong to a union would have had to switch to direct debits or make other arrangements to pay their fees.
But a cabinet office minister admitted the government had failed to convince Tory peers to vote for the proposal and said it would be dropped from the bill.
The decision will be seen as a major victory for public sector unions which had claimed the proposal was a vindictive attack on their finances.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/19/government-scraps-proposed-changes-trade-union-funding
Under plans included in the trade union bill all civil servants and staff in the wider public sector who belong to a union would have had to switch to direct debits or make other arrangements to pay their fees.
But a cabinet office minister admitted the government had failed to convince Tory peers to vote for the proposal and said it would be dropped from the bill.
The decision will be seen as a major victory for public sector unions which had claimed the proposal was a vindictive attack on their finances.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/19/government-scraps-proposed-changes-trade-union-funding
Good. Tory peers not being quite as much bastards as their elected counterparts.
