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Unions launch legal challenge against government's attacks on the right to strike
Protesters during the Protect The Right To Strike march in Leeds, protesting against the government's controversial plans for a new law on minimum service levels during strikes, February 1, 2023.

TRADE unions launched a major legal challenge to Tory government attacks on the right to strike today.

The High Court began a two-day hearing of the case, brought by social justice law firm Thompsons Solicitors on behalf of 11 unions co-ordinated by the TUC.

The coalition, which includes Unite, GMB and the National Education Union, decided to act after Downing Street changed the law to allow bosses to employ agency workers to break legal industrial action.

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