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Striking members of the National Education Union (NEU) on Piccadilly march to a rally in Trafalgar Square, central London, in a long-running dispute over pay, March 15, 2023
TEACHERS demanded the “biggest possible alliance against the Tory government’s union-busting charter and its ongoing class war” yesterday.
The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is the “most draconian anti-trade union legislation in Europe” but shows ministers are “running scared” amid a wave of strikes, delegates at the National Education Union’s (NEU) annual conference said.
NEU members, gathered in Harrogate, overwhelmingly backed a motion to “work with other unions and the TUC to campaign for the removal of all anti-trade union laws” enacted since Thatcher’s government in the 1980s.
A packed fringe meeting at the National Education Union conference heard from Iranian teachers, campaigners and journalists
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
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