The Green Party last night signalled a return to the industrial strife of the 1970s by promising to allow unions to revive the notorious practice of ‘flying pickets’.
In a speech in Manchester, Zack Polanski pledged to tear up Margaret Thatcher‘s anti-strike laws which finally brought militant unions to heel in the 1980s.
He said the Greens would introduce a £15-an-hour minimum wage.
He also said the party would cap bosses’ pay as part of a drive to establish themselves as the ‘new workers’ party’.
In the 1970s, so-called flying pickets took advantage of secondary picketing laws which allowed workers to take action at
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