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People take part in the Stand up to Racism march in central London to mark UN Anti-Racism Day, on March 19, 2022
THE Tory government’s anti-strikes Bill represents a “huge step backwards for tackling workplace racism,” the TUC warned today as it joined major race equality groups to condemn the legislation.
The Equality Trust, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and the Runnymede Trust sided with the union body to slam the potential impact of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, which is set to be considered by peers after being rushed through the Commons in late January.
The widely condemned legislation would empower ministers and bosses to sack workers who refuse to cross their own picket lines and provide an as yet undefined minimum service level during walkouts across six key sectors.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
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