Labour Vs The Unions | NM at #TWT22

it's really important you get politicians to come out and support you and stand with you in this I'm very proud to do that to be with you this morning and to support you through this campaign both as MP from here from the shadow cabinet and as running as leader of the labor party my leadership if I win will be standing with you and other campaigns like you so we can win on issues like this that are so important those are the words of one kiss Dharma that was during his leadership campaign he is of course now leader of the labor party two years later Shadow cabinet members are banned from backing strikes or going on picket lines he said that on a ucu picket line so some dishonesty there when it comes to Labor's current approach to strikes trade unions but is it necessary if the labor party want to get into government that is our topic for this evening and I have a Stella Paulo lined up for it I'm hoping it's going to be fiery joined by Mick Lynch General Secretary of the rmt you will recognize him from all over the news channels completely owning anyone who dared interview him um I've also joined by John mcternan let's go secretary for Tony Blair um when he was prime minister and I'm joined by Zara Sultana MP for Coventry South um who since first getting elected in 2019 has become one of the most high profile left Wingers in Parliament so to begin um I actually don't want to start on the question we have advertised tonight should labor backstrikes I want to start on some breaking news from this week um from yesterday which is the comments quasi-quarteng made yesterday when he was giving his mini budget so quasi quateng said this at such a critical time for our economy it is simply unacceptable that strike action is disrupting so many lives other European countries have minimum service levels to stop militant trade unions closing down transport networks during strikes so we will do the same and we will go further we will legislate to require unions to put pay offers to a member vote to ensure strikes can only be called once negotiations have genuinely broken down now because I feel like quasi-quarting was potentially talking directly to you and when ...