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07 Jun 2016

As part of the Committee on the Application of Standards’ consideration of the UK Trade Union Act 2016, Amanda Brown, NUT Assistant General Secretary and UK worker delegate to the Committee made the following speech.

The Trade Union Act finished its legislative process last month and the government is now free to bring its provisions into effect at any time. Even though the government was pressured into making concessions in Parliament, the new Act still marks a high point of interference in labour rights to organise in the UK which hits to the heart of the right to freedom of association...

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