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'Build a mass movement to defeat the Tory attacks on strike rights'
FBU general secretary and TUC president MATT WRACK tells Ben Chacko how he sees resistance developing as the first Special TUC Congress since the 1980s meets
FBU leader Matt Wrack
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THIS weekend’s special TUC Congress — the first since the early 1980s — has been called to address the most draconian anti-strike legislation yet.
Fire Brigades Union Matt Wrack, who as TUC president this year has played a key role in organising this Congress, doesn’t underestimate the challenge facing unions.
The government’s Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act could effectively ban strike action across whole sectors, with ministers defining “minimum service levels” that require everyone to work — in a recent strike in Sao Paulo, a labour court instructed rail workers to run 100 per cent of services at peak times and 80 per cent at other times.
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