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‘The Strikes Act is the nadir of the Conservatives’ wretched record on living standards’
TUC reports Tory's anti-strike legislation to the UN workers’ rights watchdog
Junior doctor members of the British Medical Association (BMA) during a rally outside Downing Street in London, at the start a four-day strike amid the bitter dispute with the government over pay, August 11, 2023

THE TUC is mounting an international challenge to “unworkable” Tory anti-strike legislation, which makes Britain even more of a pariah than it already was, the union body said today.

It’s challenging the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act through the United Nations’ Geneva-based workers’ rights arm, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and is being backed by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), which represents 45 million trade unionists.

The ETUC said anti-union laws already make it harder for working people in Britain to take strike action than in any other Western European country.

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