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DISCRIMINATION by councils against contractors with non-union labour is bad for the ratepayer, the taxpayer and the country, said Junior Employment Minister David Waddington.
The small family haulage firm and business threatened by a which has worked for years in shop steward who has taken it and out of the docks, but which into his head to ask for the drivsuddenly finds its way barred er's union cards is one example of this discrimination, he said.
Mr Waddington was speaking at the Chartered Building Societies Institute in London, and he explained that the Government has tried in the Employment Bill to deal with "evident abuses" where there is overwhelming support for legislative action.
One such abuse was the practice of "union labour only" requirements in commercial contracts, Mr Waddington said. This is a practice which has become all too common-place in the local authority field in particular.
The main reason that this discrimination goes on, said Mr Waddington, is to shield from competition the councils' own inefficient direct labour departments.