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Protesters during the demonstration in Parliament Square, London, against the Government's controversial legislation on minimum levels of service during strikes, which unions warn could lead to workers being sacked for legally voting to take industrial action. Picture date: Monday May 22, 2023.
TORY attacks on the right to strike have seen Britain plummet down global rankings on workers’ rights, a damning new report published today warns.
The government’s “systemic violation of rights” has left the country sitting alongside notorious right-wing regimes in Qatar and Hungary in the global rights index, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) said.
The intervention from the union body, which represents 190 million workers in 167 countries, comes as the widely condemned Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill moves through Parliament.
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
TONY BURKE says an International Labour Conference next month will try for a new convention to protect often super-exploited workers providing services such as ride-hailing (taxis) such as Uber as well as fast food and package delivery
