[IER] More Government by Diktat: the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill

[Ben Sellers]

News brief 13/01/23   View this email in your browser 





Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill: More Government by Diktat


"Despite his protestations in the Commons about respecting the right to strike, the power taken has the potential to render the right to strike to be no more than a right to make a meaningful but ineffective protest.   There will be a right to strike but only to the extent permitted by Grant Shapps, an extraordinary power in a democracy to bestow on one man."

A new blog by Professor Keith Ewing and Lord John Hendy on the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill. 


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Banning Strikes by the Backdoor?
A First Look at the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill by Ruth Dukes (Glasgow University Law School) 


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Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill published
The Government publish text of Bill on minimum service levels 


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Hear no evil; see no evil…

Work and health in the 21st century and the politics of harm.

New blog by David Walters and Phil James on the recent publication of Work and Health: 50 Years of Regulatory Failure, one of the most important IER publications of recent years. 
  


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Unite blasts NHS Pay Review Body as “long passed its sell-by date
Joint trade unions declare that they have withdrawn from the NHSPRB process for the next round of pay negotiations for 2023/2024 


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Banning union membership would “leave workers open to countless abuses” – TUC 
PM considered union ban for thousands of key staff – according to leaked emails 



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IER Chair John Hendy to speak at People's Assembly conference
Tomorrow (Sat 14th Jan) John Hendy KC will take part in a panel discussion on anti-strike regulations and how the movement should respond. You can sign up for the People's Assembly Annual conference here. 


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