UNIONS are drawing up a “wish list” for wrecking Britain by demanding a new raft of new protections for workers, the Tories say.

Pressure is being heaped on to go beyond the existing employment rights despite reforms already costing business £1 billion a year.

Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaking at the Grange Interlink Community Centre.Pressure is being heaped on Andy Burnham to go beyond the existing employment rights despite reforms already costing business £1 billion a year Credit: AP Culture Minister Julia Lopez MP.Julia Lopez said: ‘This is a wish list for wrecking Britain. Labour’s first Employment Rights Act has killed thousands of jobs’

The warning comes from the NASUWT teaching union as the trade union movement meets in for its annual rally.

The organisation is demanding a second workers’ rights bill that repeals all and introduces sectoral collective bargaining.

Shadow Business Secretary Julia Lopez said: “This is a wish list for wrecking Britain.

“Labour’s first Employment Rights Act has killed thousands of jobs, whacked up the cost of hiring, and has been a minefield for businesses. We do not need another.”

But Matt Wrack, boss of the NASUWT, last night said: “Fourteen years of the Conservative approach to employment rights left the UK economy in a productivity black hole.

“The result was crumbling public services, rapidly diminishing opportunities, sickening levels of inequality and a cost of living crisis that will be remembered for decades.

“What does boost productivity? Empowered workers in strong unions.

“But perhaps the Shadow Business Secretary does not wish to boost productivity, or equality in the workplace. Perhaps she seeks to boost billionaires’ profits at workers’ expense.”

has brought in changes including reducing the qualifying period for the right to claim unfair dismissal from two years to six months.

Concerns have also been raised over bosses having to inform workers of their right to join a trade union.