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Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) on the picket line, March 18, 2024
A LEGAL challenge to the government’s repressive minimum service levels anti-strike laws has been given the go-ahead.
The High Court has ruled that Civil Service union PCS challenge the laws through a judicial review of their legality.
The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 gives new powers to employers in certain sectors to impose minimum service levels during strike action, forcing workers to break their own strikes or face the sack.
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
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