TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
Minimum Services Levels – Fighting for the Future
TSSA general secretary MARYAM ESLAMDOUST on the challenge posed by the Tories' attack on the right to strike
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THIS winter trade unionists have every right to feel discontent about the government on many fronts but especially the imposition of legislation which strikes at the heart of the basic right to strike.
The Tory government, bunkered in the bowels of Westminster, has rushed a new law through Parliament which will mean 40 per cent of normal passenger and infrastructure services being run in the event of a strike on the railways. We are not alone; many other sectors will be badly hit by the draconian Minimum Service Levels Act.
Not only have ministers failed to listen to our union, sister unions, a range of MPs and the Tory chair of the transport committee which carried out a full investigation; they are willingly ignoring the flashing warning signs in front of their very eyes.
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