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An RMT Save Our Seafarers banner in a protest against illegal sackings by P&O. Ministers are now pushing anti-strike legislation in a bid to blunt its resistance to attacks on railway funding
THE labour movement pledged to resist another “cynical and authoritarian” Tory assault on trade union rights today.
Working people must be free to organise as they are “not slaves chained to the oars of the galley,” unions stressed, while former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said attacks on workers’ rights during a cost-of-living crisis are “a story as old as the Tory Party.”
The furious backlash was prompted by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps’s warning that ministers are considering the introduction of minimum service levels requirements on railways which would make industrial action illegal unless a certain number of staff are working.
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
On the eve of the 157th Trades Union Congress, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, celebrates victory in his campaign to get dignity for drivers at work