[IER] Attacks on the right to strike

[Ben Sellers]

News brief - 01/07/22                                                                           View this email in your browser 





Three attacks on the right to strike


Professor Keith Ewing, President of the Institute of Employment Rights writes: 

"The Tories are looking at ways to force ‘minimum servicing,’ agency strike-breakers and a massive increase in damages onto the unions

The government response to the RMT dispute is straight from the Tory playbook.
A simmering resentment of a trade union, pick a fight with the same union, control the management of the dispute and use the dispute for partisan political ends which serve no public interest, with passengers and workers treated as collateral damage. Use it also as cover for even more attacks on the right to strike."


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Breaking strikes using agency workers is recklessly gambling with public safety
"Ministers are once again looking to breach their own commitments by allowing the treatment of workers to fall far short of international standards."

- Justin Madders, Shadow Minister for Employment Rights & Protections


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1 in 5 workplaces do not have any policies to support LGBT staff
A new TUC poll reveals a widespread lack of support for LGBT people at work.


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The TUC issues warning over post-Brexit trade deals
The TUC claims that ministers have been pushing for post-Brexit trade deals with over a dozen countries that do not guarantee workers' rights or systematically violate employee protections.


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Durham Miners’ Gala: Eve of Gala Rally
50 years after the Pentonville 5, now is the time for a New Deal for Workers. 

Speakers on the 8th of July include:
Lord John Hendy QC (CTUF & IER)
Laura Pidcock (People’s Assembly)
Karen Reay (Unite NEYH Regional Secretary)
Barry Gardiner MP
Mick Lynch RMT
More to be announced


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Warning from history: On the 50th anniversary of the jailing of the Pentonville Five
Professor Keith Ewing, President of the Institute of Employment Rights (IER), looks at how British governments, Tory and Labour, have systematically adapted the law to suppress legitimate trade union activity.


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