Greens Revive Flying Pickets, Aim to Be Workers' Party

0:00On May 1st, the Green Party just dropped a bombshell, signaling a throwback to the 1970s with plans to revive flying pickets by scrapping. Market Thatcher's anti-strike laws from the 1980s. Zach Polansky laid it out in a Manchester speech, pushing a 15-pound-an-hour minimum wage for everyone and caps on Boss' pay to position Greens, as the New Workers Party. He wants to wipe out all anti-union laws since 1979, arguing thatcher's reforms kicked off decades of tilting power and wealth away. From workers, back in the 1970s, flying pickets meant roving union crews, shutting down workplaces not even their own, all in solidarity, sparking major, industrial chaos. This ramps up way past labor's workers' rights push, which businesses already blast for killing jobs and growth. Experts say equalizing wages near the median could dump more young folks into unemployment lines. Toys are firing back hard, with their business spokesman calling these green ideas straight up lunatic amid rising youth joblessness from taxes and red tape.

1:06With elections heating up, expect this union revival talk to stir the pot even more.