Protesters during the Protect The Right To Strike march in Leeds. Picture date: Wednesday February 1, 2023
GOVERNMENT efforts to sabotage strikes by legalising the use of agency workers as scabs were stamped on by the High Court today.
In a damning judgement, Mr Justice Linden declared the new laws “so unfair as to be unlawful and, indeed, irrational.”
Unions hailed the decision as a “complete vindication” of their legal challenge to the legislation, which must now be dumped by the government.
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
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
