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TRADE UNION BILL UPDATE

Thanks for all your support so far in the campaign against the Trade Union Bill. We had a big result in the House of Commons, with confirmation of further government climbdowns to add to wins over the last 10 months.

Frances O’Grady writes about the campaign and where the bill now stands.

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THE LATEST NEWS

TUC speaks out against the Trade Union Act at the ILO

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.
07 June 2016

ZCTU speak out against the Trade Union Act

As part of the Committee on the Application of Standards’ consideration of the UK Trade Union Act 2016, Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions President George Nkiwane made the following speech.
07 June 2016

CGIL speak out against the Trade Union Act

As part of the Committee on the Application of Standards’ consideration of the UK Trade Union Act 2016, CGIL international officer Silvana Cappuccio, Italian worker delegate to the ILO made the following speech.
07 June 2016

New Zealand unions speak out against the Trade Union Act

As part of the Committee on the Application of Standards’ consideration of the UK Trade Union Act 2016, Jeff Sissons from the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (NZCTU) made the following speech.
07 June 2016

Global transport unions speak out against the Trade Union Act

As part of the Committee on the Application of Standards’ consideration of the UK Trade Union Act 2016, Ruwan Subasinghe from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) made the following speech.
07 June 2016

Trade Union Bill remains a serious threat to good industrial relations, warns TUC

Commenting after the Trade Union Bill was today (Tuesday) debated for the final time in the House of Lords and so completing its Parliamentary stages, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said: “While we are pleased to have secured significant changes to the Trade Union Bill, it still remains a very bad and divisive bill.
03 May 2016

TUC welcomes government concession of an independent review for electronic voting in strike ballots

Commenting on today’s (Wednesday) announcement by the government that it is to hold an independent review within six months that will report to Parliament about whether to allow electronic voting in strike ballots, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:
27 April 2016

TUC welcomes government concessions on trade union political funds

This is another victory for common sense. We are pleased the government appears to have backtracked from implementing damaging changes to union political funds
27 April 2016

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