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Paul Nowak (2nd from right), general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), joins union members as they gather outside Westminster Central Hall, in London, ahead of a march and rally against the Government's controversial plans for a new law on minimum service levels during strikes, February 1, 2023
THE TUC is organising a march and rally in celebration of union history and to stand up against Tory attempts to restrict the right to strike.
Trade union members and branches have been invited to attend the rally in Cheltenham — home of spy hub GCHQ — on Saturday January 27.
Forty years ago, on January 25 1984, Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government attacked trade union rights at GCHQ, with union members told to resign their membership or be sacked.
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
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
