Trade Unions Create Route for Secret Donations In Labour’s Employment Rights Bill
The left loves to endlessly sound off about Tory and Reform donors. But the Labour government is in hock to its union paymasters and is doing their bidding when it comes to donations…
Angela Rayner’s Employment Rights Bill is slowly making its way through Parliament (even though she was hilariously just chucked out of her own union). Clause 77 of the Bill includes measures to help unions hide their annual expenditure – especially that made by ‘political funds’, which are union accounts used to funnel member subscription money to the Labour Party and a host of lefty campaigns. The Bill means this spending will no longer be included in the published annual returns of trade unions. As Tory peer Lord Leigh of Hurley put it during a debate yesterday:
“It also allows me to explain to him another payment from the Unite political fund, which he may not be aware of, to the Marx Memorial Library. I kid you not—you could not make it up. I am sure the members of Unite are thrilled to know that their hard-earned wages are going to support the Marx Memorial Library, but when the Bill becomes an Act, in a matter of months, they will no longer have the right to see that disbursement.”
Other donations that would be hidden include dolling out cash to hard left groups like the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. In both the Commons and the Lords, the Labour benches are packed to the rafters with current union members and former union officials. If Rayner’s secret cash route survives, will she be let back into Unite?
