Fantastic demands are still made, such as the return of secondarypicketing, but these are half-hearted rituals.
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Earlier CBI director general Digby Jones said trade unions for were "increasingly irrelevant", particularly when they still called for secondarypicketing.
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He admits that trade unions had hoped to use the charter to attack the Thatcher labour laws, such as one barring secondarypicketing, but says that is now impossible.
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