Bosses at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London have used the courts to block effective picketing by striking security guards, who now face criminal charges if they attempt anything beyond the most tame, ineffectual activity within 200 metres of their workplace.
The injunction is another example of how the laws and judiciary are a tool in the hands of employers to restrict workers’ ability to assert themselves and improve their conditions.
The workers’ union, United Voices of the World, has called a protest at the Royal Courts of Justice at 10am on Wednesday 16 February, when the injunction will be contested.
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