This article, by FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack, was orginally published on Labour List, in September 2018. Find it here. Our Tory anti-union laws represent one of the foremost constraints preventing working-class people from winning better conditions at work and making gains in wider politics. That’s why at this year’s Labour Party conference I’ll beContinue reading “Matt Wrack: Labour must vow to scrap all anti-union laws”
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Labour must get the anti-union laws off workers’ backs!
By Mark Osborn, NEU rep at City of London Academy (Southwark). Published on 23rd October 2018. The National Education Union at CoLA took three days of strike action in March. We took one day of action on the first week, two days the next week and the union told our Head we would be outContinue reading “Labour must get the anti-union laws off workers’ backs!”
John McDonnell’s TUC speech and the right to strike
Published on 11th September 2018 John McDonnell’s speech to the TUC on workers’ rights comes in the context of new figures showing falling unemployment and rising real earnings. But higher employment does not automatically mean better conditions and rights for workers; and the marginal increase in real wages comes after a decade of the most severe fallContinue reading “John McDonnell’s TUC speech and the right to strike”
IWGB supports call to repeal anti-union laws, establish strong right to strike
This statement was originally published on the IWGB website. Find it here. The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is backing the call supported by a growing number of trade union branches and organisations for repeal of all anti-trade union laws and their replacement with positive legal rights for workers and unions to organiseContinue reading “IWGB supports call to repeal anti-union laws, establish strong right to strike”
Trade union rights – back John McDonnell’s call
By Sam Greenwood, Wakefield Local Government UNISON activist Speaking at a meeting on the first hundred days of a Labour government at Unison conference this week, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said that a Corbyn government will repeal all the Tories’ anti-union laws and enact positive legislation for workers’ rights. He also said Labour would back all strikes,Continue reading “Trade union rights – back John McDonnell’s call”
“A Corbyn government must free our unions” – motion to Unite policy conference
The following motion has been submitted to Unite the Union’s policy conference (2-6 July 2018, Brighton).
Matt Wrack and Shen Batmaz on why Labour must repeal all anti-union laws
Two leading labour movement activists, FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack and McStrike organiser Shen Batmaz, spoke to Free Our Unions about why the demand to repeal the anti-union laws is so important.
Young Labour national policy on repealing the anti-union laws/workers’ rights
The following two motions were passed at Young Labour policy conference in October 2017, building on the policy passed by Labour Party conference in September.
The anti-union laws: acid test for a Corbyn government
“[Since 1980, trade unions have been] regulated, harried, battered, fined and sequestrated, step by step by step, in Act after Act in pursuit of aim of decollectivising the workplace.” – Labour peer Bill Wedderburn on the last of nine Tory anti-union Acts, 1993
If Jeremy Corbyn wants a mass movement, he must radically revive the unions
By Michael Chessum, orginally published in The New Statesman, 5th January 2018 The world, especially the political world, is a volatile place these days, and one ought to be wary of omens. But when McDonalds announced this week that it would award its employees their biggest pay rise in a decade, you could be forgiven for havingContinue reading “If Jeremy Corbyn wants a mass movement, he must radically revive the unions”
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