Pickles joins calls for tougher strike rules following Tube action

Dom Browne

11 February 2014

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has become the second senior Conservative to call for strikes to be illegal unless 50% of eligible workers vote in the ballot, in the wake of industrial action on the Tube.

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