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General secretary of the Trades Union Congress Paul Nowak
TORY ministers must make a “clear commitment” not to overturn a reinstated ban on bosses using temporary agency workers to break strikes, the TUC demanded today.
The widely criticised end to the long-standing ban — enacted in the dying days of former prime minister Boris Johnson’s scandal-hit administration last summer — was quashed as of today following a High Court ruling last month.
Judges found that then business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng failed to consult unions as required by the Employment Agencies Act 1973 when making the draconian changes.
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
