Hull Trains drivers in Aslef are striking against the sacking of a workmate for raising health and safety concerns. They will hold a solidarity rally on Friday 29 August.
Category Archives: Strike Solidarity
Support the mass picket in Sheffield!
A coalition of labour movement organisations, including Free Our Unions, have cosponsored a call for a mass picket in support a bin workers’ strike in Sheffield on 9 July.
Unions speak out for the right to strike
Five trade unions have co-signed a statement supporting an amendment to the Employment Rights Bill that would end the ban on solidarity strikes (aka “secondary action”).
Don’t just celebrate, mobilise! Hold Labour to repealing the TU Act
We must fight to win repeal of all anti-union laws – but more immediately, to hold Labour to its commitments on repealing the most recent ones.
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.
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.
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.”
We need to get serious about what “non-compliance” means
This is a discussion article written by a Free Our Unions supporter. To respond, please email freeourunions@gmail.com.
Birmingham Strike Solidarity Committee meeting – 7pm, Thursday 31 August
Free Our Unions is pleased to be contributing to the next meeting of the Birmingham Strike Solidarity Committee, which will take place at 7pm on 31 August, in the Committee Room, Nortons 43-45, Meriden Street, Digbeth B5 5LS. If you’re in the area, please join us!
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