Unions will defy anti-strikes law and refuse to tell members to cross picket lines, special Congress vows
by Ben Chacko at Congress House
UNIONS vowed as one to defy the Tories’ Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act in the first TUC special congress since 1982 at the weekend.
Congress voted unanimously that unions would refuse to tell their members to cross picket lines — a commitment not to comply with the repressive legislation’s diktat that unions take “reasonable steps” to ensure their members comply with work notices issued ordering named individuals to break strikes.
A general council statement specified 15 action points the entire TUC agreed to, pledging to back any worker targeted in a work notice, mount legal challenges to the new laws, and demand employers commit not to issue work notices.
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