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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.
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
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