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ITUC says Britain sliding down the international scale on workers rights

TORY attacks on the right to strike have seen Britain plummet down global rankings on workers’ rights, a damning new report published today warns.
The government’s “systemic violation of rights” has left the country sitting alongside notorious right-wing regimes in Qatar and Hungary in the global rights index, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) said.
The intervention from the union body, which represents 190 million workers in 167 countries, comes as the widely condemned Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill moves through Parliament.
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