Hope it goes better than last year’s attempt to push through the trade union freedom bill.

That got pushed down the latrine by Labour’s powers that be as I understand it. I was talking to John McDonnell about it the other day and he said that the government made very sure that that bill wasn’t read.

But a lot of the gripes on the Unite website are already illegal.

Not paying NI, not giving health and safety training, making people operate dangerous machinery without safety equipment and not giving people written statements of employment conditions are all against the law.

If these laws are not being enforced now, what would change if this bill were passed? Bad employers will still get away with breaking these laws if no-one reports them.

That said, one effect the bill might have is to make people feel that bit more secure and therefore give them courage to blow the whistle on all the other stuff.