Very happy to support the Institute of Employment Rights (IER) campaign to defend the right to strike.
I have signed the pledge for General Election candidates – to confirm I will prioritise campaigning to repeal the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 and other anti-union legislation.
“The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 became law in July, following a lengthy fight in the House of Lords. It continues the raft of anti-union legislation started by Mrs Thatcher in 1980, making UK law on trade unions ‘the most restrictive in the western world’ as Tony Blair famously described it in 1997. Labour governments did not reverse this regime when they had the chance between 1997 and 2010 and since then, of course, there have been yet further restrictions, including the Trade Union Act 2016.”
More details on the background here: