Yesterday at the TUC Congress, moving a motion on council funding, Sharon Graham, Unite General Secretary, said: ‘We in the trade unions have enormous power. We stand firmly with all workers on strike, with the RMT Tube workers and the Birmingham bin workers. ‘As far as the Employment Rights Bill, they want to water it down so that councils in debt can fire and rehire. We had our trade union rights ripped away from us. They have not repealed the anti-trade union laws and the Employment Rights Bill goes nowhere near far enough.