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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’
THE government’s anti-strikes Bill has been condemned by more than 100 politicians from around the world today who have urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to drop the legislation.
The Conservatives’ Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is moving to the report stage in the House of Lords on Wednesday.
The worldwide condemnation has followed after the Tories have attempted to justify the legislation by claiming they are emulating other countries such as France, Italy and Spain.
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
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
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
