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A win for our right to strike
This week, the government committed to formally repeal the Minimum Service Levels Act. This is an important milestone in the campaign to protect the right to strike that wouldn't have been possible without you.
Defending the right to strike: lessons from GCHQ
Forty years ago – on 25th Jan 1984 - Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government attacked trade union rights at GCHQ.
"The introduction of minimum service levels is a huge mistake”
On Saturday 27 January, hundreds of union members will gather in Cheltenham to mark 40 years since Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government attacked trade union rights at GCHQ.
40 years after GCHQ: uniting against attacks on workers' rights
Forty years ago, 14 civil servants working in Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) lost their jobs for being members of a trade union.
We won't stop defending the right to strike
After 13 long years of Conservative government, nothing works in this country anymore. But instead of getting on with fixing the mess they created, the government is focussed on attacking the right to strike.
TUC uses UK Domestic Advisory Group to raise concerns about anti-strikes law
Despite its commitments to respect workers’ rights, the government has published, and parliament has enacted, the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023. In response, the TUC has used the Domestic Advisory Groups to hold the government to account, as well as hold governments in partner countries to respecting fundamental workers’ rights – working with sister trade unions across the world.
Unions court win means agency workers can no longer be used to break strike action
Unions have scored an important win against the government’s attacks on trade unions. The High Court has quashed a legal change that ministers made last year that allowed employment agencies to supply workers to replace those on strike.
We will defend the right to strike at all costs
Make no mistake – this is one of the most pernicious pieces of union-bashing legislation you will ever see.
Government faced its second big defeat on the Strikes Bill
This week the government faced its second big defeat on the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill in the House of Lords.
We will not stand by and let them sack a single nurse, paramedic, teacher, railway worker or civil servant
It was fantastic to be joined by so many of you in Parliament Square on Monday night to send a clear message to the government:
We will not stand by while you attack our right to strike.
Government’s anti-strikes bill defeated in the House of Lords
Last week saw a string of defeats for the government's Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill in the House of Lords. A combination of Labour, Lib Dem, crossbench peers and bishops vote in support of amendments that neutered the worst bits of this terrible legislation,
One year on from P&O Ferries, the government is still letting workers down
It’s been a year since the P&O Ferries sackings, but nothing has been done to stop another one.
Yorkshire & the Humber rises up to defend the right to strike
Over the course of the past few weeks the TUC Yorkshire & the Humber (TUC Y&H) has been working collaboratively with local Trades Councils and Trade Unions to organise rallies and marches across the region.
Fighting the anti-strike law
The government is attempting to rush through Parliament new laws that could undermine workers’ ability to take strike action to defend their pay and conditions.
Defend the right to strike
Video blog: This week the government rushed their unfair, anti-democratic anti-strike bill through the House of Commons. Join our campaign to stop the bill.
