LIZ Truss’s promise to crack down on trade unions and make it harder for strikes to take place has been slammed as a “transparent egregious attack” on workers.
The Tory leadership contender has vowed to introduce minimum service levels on critical national infrastructure, such as the railways, raising the ballot threshold for workers to vote in favour of strike action from 40 to 50%, and instituting a “cooling off” period of six months to stop ongoing industrial action.
