The Government's Employment Bill aims to narrow the scope of the immunities which trade unions enjoy under the law. What will be the consequences in the courts? Should the law be rewritten to give trade unionists a bill of ' positive'rights?
Sir Andrew Shonfleld , a member of the Royal Commission of Trade Unions and now Professor of Economics at the European University Institute in Florence, discusses these issues with Lord Wedderburn, Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics, and Jon Harvey , qc, author of Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law.
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