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FIGHTBACK: Paul Nowak
by Alan Jones
THE government has launched a “sham” six-week consultation on its anti-strike law over “reasonable steps” unions should take to ensure minimum service levels during walkouts.
Following royal assent to the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act, the government can set minimum service levels within sectors, including emergency services, passenger rail services and border security.
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
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
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