Frances O'Grady
Shaun Ley speaks to Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress. To many of those most in need of support in the work place, have the unions become irrelevant?
Not since Margaret Thatcher vowed to break the power of organised Labour has Britain's trade union movement faced a bigger threat. The new Government wants to make it harder to take industrial action. Hardtalk speaks to Frances O'Grady, whose organisation - the TUC - is the collective voice of the unions, says it will become all but impossible to strike. Maybe the threat to union power is more fundamental. Across Europe, in most countries the number of workers joining unions is in decline. To many of those most in need of support in the work place, have the unions become irrelevant?
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