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Strike action: How did we get to this point?

The government is unveiling plans to toughen up strike laws, including a minimum turnout in ballots, which it says will balance the right to industrial action with the rights of working people and businesses.

However, unions say the changes will make legal strikes close to impossible.

Victoria Derbyshire looks back at the past 40 years of relations between unions and the governing parties.

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