General Secretary of the RMT union, Mick Lynch (far left) joins MPs and union officials at a rally in Westminster against minimum service levels legislation.
TORY plans to introduce legislation forcing workers to break their own strikes will face a “mass movement” of resistance, unions warned today.
A large demonstration against the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, which had its second reading in the Commons today, was due to be held opposite Downing Street after this article was published.
The proposed legislation, which comes amid a massive strike wave sweeping Britain, would empower bosses to sack workers who refuse to provide a minimum level of service during walkouts across transport, education and other key sectors.
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
