Friday, 7 May 2021, 12:24 pm
“Compulsory unionism is undemocratic, will be a
wrecking ball on the economy, and doesn’t solve any
identified problem,” says ACT Leader David
Seymour.
“Today’s proposal is far more radical
than anything the Government has proposed before. It said it
would initially be ‘one or two industries.’ Today’s
proposal would allow any industry to have compulsory
unionism forced on it by one-in-ten workers from day
one.
“You cannot take a relic of the 1970s, dust it
off, and make it stick 50 years on. We will wipe it off the
statute books sooner or later, and the way this Government