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Protesters on a primary school teachers picket line outside Wellshot Primary School in Glasgow
TORY plans to force workers to cross picket lines represent an “authoritarian attack on human rights and show the government has lost the argument” as hundreds of thousands down tools nationwide, unions warned today.
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) called for a “mass movement of resistance” against new legislation, introduced to the Commons today, which would enforce minimum service level requirements across the NHS, schools, public transport and other key sectors.
The widely condemned move, which would allow bosses to sue unions and dismiss staff who refused to provide a certain level of service during walkouts, was described by Business Secretary Grant Shapps as a “common-sense” response to the biggest strike wave to sweep Britain in decades.
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more
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
Hundreds travel to Birmingham to join ‘mega picket’ of striking refuse workers and supporters
