The UK Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday 17 April that UK law allowing employers to discipline (but not sack) workers for striking is in conflict with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
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Leeds Council opposes anti-strike laws
Leeds City Council has passed a resolution opposing the government’s “Minimum Service Levels” Act.
Write to your councillor to demand “no work notices”
The Campaign for Trade Union Freedom, Strike Map, and a number of other organisations have partnered to launch a new initiative encouraging activists to write to their local councillors to demand councils commit no to issuing work notices.
Largest Academy Trust rules out “work notices”: make others do the same!
Schools Week has announced that United Learning (UL), the largest Academy Trust in England, operating 89 schools and employing 7,000 staff, has stated it will not use the Minimum Service Law (MSL) to issue “work notices” instructing staff to strike-break.
After Cheltenham demo: keep up campaigning, build for open defiance
Thousands of trade unionists marched in Cheltenham today (27 January), to mark the 40th anniversary of the Thatcher government’s ban on unions at Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and protest contemporary anti-strike laws, including the new Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act.
Online meeting – Thursday 15 February, 7pm: The fight for the right to strike, with Matt Wrack (FBU)
After the TUC Special Congress of 9 December, and the demonstration in Cheltenham on 27 January, what are the next steps in the fight against anti-strike laws – not only the most recent, but all existing restrictions on our right to strike?
How do we beat the Minimum Service Levels Act? Online meeting, 7pm, 1 February
The Troublemakers At Work network, founded at a conference in July co-hosted by Strike Map, NHS Workers Say No, and various other left and labour movement bodies, is hosting an online meeting at 7pm on 1 February to discuss building resistance to the Minimum Service Levels Act.
23 January: Lewisham unions meet to plan campaigning against anti-strike laws
Several unions in the borough of Lewisham, south London, have called a joint campaign meeting on 23 January to plan activity opposing the Tories’ new anti-strike laws.
After TUC special congress: defiance needs action, not just words
Perhaps the most significant sentence in the resolution passed by the TUC special congress, held on 9 December to discuss the Tories’ latest anti-strike laws, is a commitment that unions will “refuse to tell [their] members to cross a picket line.”
Sheffield City Council opposes MSL law
its 6 December, Sheffield City Council passed a resolution opposing the Tories’ new Minimum Service Levels Act.
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