Labour: we'll restore right to strike in support of overseas workers

John McDonnell says party would abolish Thatcher-era laws undermining right to take ‘sympathy action’Labour would abolish Thatcher-era laws preventing workers in the UK from taking industrial action in solidarity with their counterparts in other countries, the shadow chancellor has announced.At an event in Airdrie, John McDonnell pledged that a Labour government would restore trade union rights by repealing legislation that undermines the ability of workers to take “collective