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TRANSPORT workers vowed today to defy proposed new laws forcing unions to provide staff to run skeleton services during strike action.
Delegates at the annual general meeting of transport union RMT in Leeds voted unanimously to refuse to provide “minimum service levels” in key sectors such as public transport during strikes.
In December 2019, the government vowed to introduce legislation aimed at transport workers after RMT members waged a campaign of strikes in an effort to keep safety-critical guards on trains.
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
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
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
