As the TUC meets to plan its response tomorrow (December 8) my message is clear: don’t back down, strikes are a vital part of how we improve pay and conditions.
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Devolve workers’ law in Scotland
“Congress, we are living in what we hope will be the last years, or perhaps mere months, of Tory misrule.
“And how typical it is then that they are choosing to use the last of their allotted time to attack workers and their trade unions in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis.
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Harrods’ strike breaking agency named and shamed
The agency brought in to break a pay strike by Harrods’ security guards and CCTV operators has been named and shamed as Protective Security Group Ltd. Under the new anti-trade union law passed this summer by the government, Harrods has been allowed to replace striking workers with agency staff. The company threatened the workforce with […]
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St Mungo’s ‘bullying and anti-union culture’ must end
A ‘bullying and anti-union culture’ amongst the management at London-based housing support charity St Mungo’s must end, Unite said today (March 19). Unite, which has more than 500 members at St…Read more…
Defend our right to strike
Tory proposals in the Trade Union Bill to impose new industrial action ballot thresholds for turnout (50%) and support (in ‘essential services’ 40% of all balloted) ‘would make almost all strikes…Read more…