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Protesters outside the Houses of Parliament in London, as the Bill on minimum service levels during strikes reaches its second reading
TORY ministers were accused of “spinning mistruths” yesterday after a UN labour body rejected the government’s suggestion that it supports Britain’s looming anti-strike laws.
In recent weeks, PM Rishi Sunak and Business Secretary Grant Shapps have defended plans to mandate minimum service levels during public-sector strikes by suggesting that the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has backed the proposals.
However, when asked about this at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the ILO’s director general Gilbert Houngbo made clear that the organisation was not backing the Bill.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
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
