Ministers are provoking a fight with unions to serve their own ends

Responding to proposed legal changes to allow agency workers to fill in for striking staff, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said today (Sunday): “The government’s focus should be on a plan to help the country through the cost-of-living crisis, not engineering a distracting spat with unions.
“Using agency workers isn’t safe and only serves to sour relations between employers and their employees.
“The Prime Minister should give health, care, council, sc