article_snippet: Militant union boss Len McCluskey has warned that Militant union boss Len McCluskey activists will break the law if the Tories curb the right to strike after the election.
article_snippet: Mr McCluskey, whose union has given Ed Miliband more than £14 million, said union members could not be expected to obey ‘oppressive’ laws that restrict the right to strike.
article_snippet: The Conservatives have said The Conservatives will change the law to require unions to get the support of at least 40 per cent of unions members before calling a strike.
article_snippet: The initiative is designed to prevent union bosses ordering strikes on the basis of ballots in which only a tiny number of members have voted.
article_snippet: Militant union boss Len McCluskey said the right to strike was already ‘hanging by a thread’ as a result of union reforms carried out by the Coalition.
article_snippet: It is no exaggeration to say that the right to strike in this - the first country of free trade unionism - was and is hanging by a thread.
article_snippet: But should there be a Conservative majority in May, there will be a new attack on trade union rights and democracy.
article_snippet: ‘The bar for a strike ballot will be raised to a level which hardly any MPs would get over in hardly any MPs own constituencies, by a government which has refused our requests to use modern, more effective balloting methods.
article_snippet: ’ Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said: ‘Labour's biggest donor and Ed Miliband's puppet master is now advocating that Labour's biggest donor and Ed Miliband's puppet master membership break the law.
article_snippet: Ed Miliband's needs to immediately condemn this outrageous proposal and refuse to take a penny more from Unite until these plans are cancelled.
article_snippet: Tory MP Dominc Raab said it was ‘shocking’ for a union leader to call for illegal action – and called on Ed Miliband's to disown the move.
article_snippet: Mr Raab, who has campaigned for the introduction of minimum strike thresholds, said: ‘Red Len has never managed to persuade even a quarter of Unite members to back even one of Red Len reckless public sector strikes since 2010, but it's still shocking to hear Red Len preparing to break the law.
article_snippet: Ed Miliband's has taken millions from whose union bully since becoming Labour leader, so if Ed Miliband's now fails to condemn this threat of illegal strikes, he now fails to condemn this threat of illegal strikes will just show the public what a weak leader Ed Miliband's is.
article_snippet: The Labour Party declined to comment.
highlights_snippet: the Tories want  unions to get support of at least 40% of members for a strike .