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General Secretary of TUC Frances O'Grady. Unions are starting legal action against the Government over its new law allowing employers to hire agency workers to replace striking staff.
UNIONS launched a legal challenge today against the Tory government’s “hostile and unpleasant” attack on the right to strike by legalising the use of agency workers to break industrial action.
Eleven unions — co-ordinated by the TUC and represented by social justice law firm Thompsons Solicitors — warned the move would worsen industrial disputes and could endanger public safety.
The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 had barred bosses from using temporary staff to cover the duties of striking workers.
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC