[IER] Wales TUC welcome Welsh Government intervention on Strike Bill

Fri Sep 29 16:29:45 BST 2023

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Wales TUC welcome Welsh Government intervention on Strike Bill

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Counsel General for Wales, Mick Antoniw MS says the Strikes Act is “unnecessary and probably unworkable.” 

>From the Wales TUC:

"Wales TUC warmly welcome the publication of a letter from the Welsh Government to the UK Government which restates their strong opposition to the Strikes Act. We support their objections to the proposed code of practice on the so-called reasonable measures which unions would have to take to implement the Act."

In his letter to the UK Minister Kevin Hollinrake MP, the Counsel General for Wales, Mick Antoniw MS says the Strikes Act is “unnecessary and probably unworkable.”

On the code of practice on so-called reasonable steps for unions to implement the Act, the MS for Pontypridd says they are “onerous, excessive and overly prescriptive”.

He says the requirements will place “significant additional requirements on trade unions”

On picketing, the Counsel General points out that “the draft Code places picket supervisors in an invidious position by expecting them to encourage workers named in a work notice to attend work.”

 <https://www.ier.org.uk/news/minimum-service-levels-letter-from-the-counsel-general-mick-antoniw-to-the-uk-government/> More details 

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Minimum Service Levels: Letter from the Counsel General, Mick Antoniw, to the UK Government.

"We continue to have fundamental concerns about the impact of the Act on devolved public services and the very significant potential to destabilise the social partnership relationships at the heart of public service delivery in Wales."

 <https://www.ier.org.uk/news/minimum-service-levels-letter-from-the-counsel-general-mick-antoniw-to-the-uk-government/> Read the letter in full here 

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RMT warns that ‘Minimum Service’ laws will ‘poison’ industrial relations

The rail union has warned that the anti-union minimum service laws would if used worsen industrial relations, prolong disputes and lead even more days or strikes and new novel forms of action.

 <https://www.ier.org.uk/news/rmt-warns-that-minimum-service-laws-will-poison-industrial-relations/> More details 

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Campaign for Trade Union Freedom to help build movement against anti-union laws

The Campaign for Trade Union Freedom has pledged to help build a national labour movement demonstration against the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act. Report from the AGM via the Morning Star

 <https://www.ier.org.uk/news/campaign-for-trade-union-freedom-to-help-build-movement-against-anti-union-laws/> More details 

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Europe’s workers face bleak winter as firms ‘profiteer’, says union chief

Millions ‘holding on with their fingertips’ due to high interest rates, squeezed wages and Covid costs, says the European TUC general secretary, Esther Lynch 

 <https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/sep/28/europes-workers-face-bleak-winter-as-firms-profiteer-says-union-chief> More details 

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Why Greek state workers are protesting against the new labour law

The proposed bill would allow full-time workers to have a part-time second job and to work up to 13 hours a day 

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Working for Climate Justice: trade unions in the front line against climate change

A free conference on ‘green bargaining’ strategies that will bring together trade union organisers, academics and campaigners. 

 <https://www.ier.org.uk/events/working-for-climate-justice-trade-unions-in-the-front-line-against-climate-change/> Details and registration 

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