Strikes Act News Today

Government has no current plans for minimum service levels in nuclear sector because 'voluntary agreements have worked well so far'.

The NEU will launch an indicative strike ballot on March 2. The NASUWT joined them, becoming the second education union to announce plans to run a consultative ballot “in the coming weeks”.

The rally brought together unions leaders who have sold out every struggle of the working class for decades, including most recently the mass strike wave of 2022-23, that prove the unions will do nothing to defend the working class from the onslaught of the Sunak government and the employers.

Rail companies have the power to issue ‘work orders’ demanding that enough employees turn up to work to run 40 percent of the normal service.

Britain faced another week of disrupted travel from rail strikes from Tuesday, in a failure for Prime Minister Rishi Sunaks new strikes law that was intended to curb disruption to public services... -January 30, 2024 at 08:12 am EST - MarketScreener

Union says the legislation restricts right to strike under the European Convention on Human Rights

The GCHQ dispute has a special place in labour movement history, says the TUC.

Thousands of trade unionists are expected to attend the march in Cheltenham later.

Unions estimate around 5,000 trade unionists attended the march in Cheltenham today.

There are painful parallels with 1984 as spiteful Tory anti-trade union legislation culminates in the new Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act, which could mean some workers losing their jobs for striking