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Teachers call for ‘biggest possible alliance’ against government’s ‘union-busting charter’
NEU members overwhelmingly back motion to ‘work with other unions and the TUC to campaign for the removal of all anti-trade union laws’
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.
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