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Protesters outside the Houses of Parliament in London, as the Bill on minimum service levels during strikes reaches its second reading. Picture date: Monday January 16, 2023.
Gap-year scheme is ‘first step towards conscription’
UNION leaders have demanded that peers quash the government’s anti-strikes Bill, which is set to be debated in the House of Lords tomorrow.
The TUC has urged peers to vote for an amendment to the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill that would stop frontline workers getting sacked for exercising their right to withdraw their labour.
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: “It’s time for the government to ditch this Bill for good and protect the right to strike.
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
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
