A win for our right to strike

This is an important milestone in the campaign to protect the right to strike that wouldn't have been possible without you.

Last year, we fought a hard campaign against the Tories' anti-union legislation, which threatened our right to strike for decent pay, terms and conditions.

Hundreds of thousands of you signed petitions, lobbied your MPs and took to the streets in protest. Frontline workers sent handwritten letters to peers in the House of Lords, helping to delay the bill in Parliament again and again. 

And when the law was passed last July, we made it clear to the Tories and employers that the entire trade union movement would rally behind any worker sacked for exercising their fundamental right to strike.

It speaks volumes that since the law passed, not one employer was daft enough to use this vindictive and unworkable anti-strikes legislation.

This week, Labour has told all public sector employers to ignore the Minimum Service Levels Act. And they have committed to repeal the legislation through the Employment Rights Bill, which will be tabled in parliament within the Government's first 100 days.

I wanted to thank you all for the part that you played in securing this repeal.

And I want to celebrate this victory with you all, alongside the huge wave of workplace rights that we expect to see in the coming months. 

From banning exploitative zero hours contracts, to ensuring decent sick pay for all workers. This is just the beginning. It's time for a new deal for working people.