Striking members of the National Education Union (NEU) South East Region at a rally in Chichester, West Sussex
THE Tory government’s widely condemned anti-strike legislation is likely to put Britain in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, MPs and peers will warn today.
The TUC repeated its calls for the “draconian and spiteful” Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill to be junked after the joint committee on human rights (JCHR) became the latest group to slam the legislation.
In its latest report, the cross-party committee stressed proposals in the Bill to make it easier to sack striking workers and slap multimillion-pound fines on unions “fail to meet human rights obligations, are not justified and need to be reconsidered.”
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
