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Members of the National Education Union (NEU) take part in a march from Portland Place to Westminster where they will gather for rally against the Government's controversial plans for a new law on minimum service levels during strikes. Picture date: Wednesday February 1, 2023.
THE Tories’ anti-strike Bill is a “total dog’s dinner,” the labour movement charged today after an independent government watchdog slammed the legislation as “not fit for purpose.”
The regulatory policy committee — independent experts assembled by the Department for Business and Trade — slapped a rare “red rating” on Downing Street’s impact assessment of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, saying it “lacks sufficient evidence and is based on assumptions.”
The TUC accused ministers of keeping the nation in the dark about the “draconian” legislation, which could empower bosses or even Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch to sack workers who refuse to cross picket lines and provide an as-yet undefined service level across key sectors during walkouts.
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
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