The UK government is considering legal changes to allow agency workers to replace striking staff in a move to guard the public against disruption caused by unions led by “Marxists,” Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said.
The move would reverse a legal restriction introduced under former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair that prevents employers from hiring agency workers to cover for striking staff, and would apply to all sectors.
This legal change was promised in former Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party manifesto in 2015, which said the government would “repeal nonsensical restrictions banning employers from hiring agency staff to provide essential cover during strikes.”…