“Reasonable steps”? Resist!

Screenshot from https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/minimum-service-levels-code-of-practice-on-reasonable-steps

Following the passing of the Minimum Service Levels Bill, which requires unions to take “reasonable steps” to ensure their members comply with work notices, the government has launched a consultation to determine what those “reasonable steps” should be.

The consultation, which the TUC has described as “a sham”, can be read online here.

Unions’ only engagement with this exercise should be to tell the government that we will not allow our own organisations to be dragooned into becoming administrators of scabbing.

Faced with unjust, undemocratic laws that shackle what should be fundamental human rights, there is only one “reasonable step” we can take: resistance.

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