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anti-trade union laws

What has happened to the British labour movement and what does it mean for the left in the unions?

Posted on 9th January 2018 by Camilla

From the early summer to the early winter of 2017 several industrial action campaigns were making the news, both nationally and at more regional and local levels. Rail workers employed by Mersey Rail, Northern Rail and Southern Rail were mounting… Continue Reading →

Article anti-trade union laws, Strikes, Trade unions

Official and unofficial action in the fight against anti-union laws

Posted on 22nd June 2016 by Camilla

The Conservative government’s Trade Union Act 2016—in particular the strike balloting threshold provisions—represents the most radical tightening of the rules on industrial action and trade union organisation since the Margaret Thatcher era of the 1980s.1 Notwithstanding the series of significant… Continue Reading →

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