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Aslef members at a picket line at Willesden Junction station in London
PM Rishi Sunak’s “dead-end government is scapegoating workers with unworkable and counterproductive” proposals to further curb the human right to strike, the labour movement charged today.
Ministers have confirmed plans to introduce anti-worker legislation requiring key public services to maintain a minimum level of service during walkouts, severely blunting the impact of strikes.
The proposed Bill, which could give bosses powers to sue unions and sack workers who refuse to break their own legally held industrial action, would include health, education, fire and rescue, transport, border security and nuclear sectors.
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
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR