Strike action, fox hunting, the BBC, Europe, migrant benefits – never underestimate the Tory capacity to identify things that aren’t problems and then attack them. The number of days lost to strike action is on average less than a tenth of what it was during the 1980s. It’s not even as though strikes are constant […]
Posts Tagged ‘Right to strike’
Hypocrisy of the Tory “workers’ party”: making it impossible to strike
Aug 19th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.
Brighton Green council planning strike busting measures
Jun 5th, 2013 by Newsdesk.The Green party in Brighton & Hove is planning ‘contingency measures’ in an attempt to bust a strike in Brighton by GMB members seeking to defend themselves from cuts in take home pay of up to £4000 a year. Yesterday GMB wrote to the Green leader of the Council, Jason Kitcat, to warn him that the use of agency […]
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Young Labour activists call on MPs to defend the right to strike
Mar 19th, 2013 by Newsdesk.The following is a statement signed by Young Labour activists – including London Young Labour chair Hazel Nolan and members of the Young Labour National Committee (see below). The Crime and Courts bill currently approaching its’ third reading in parliament, contains legislation (clauses 12 and 13) proposing to abolish the right to take industrial action […]
