Anti-union laws

Demo and rally to back Trade Union Freedom Bill

Submitted on 29 December, 2011 - 12:58

Date:

18 October, 2007 - 19:30

Location:

Committee Room 14, Houses of Parliament, London SW1

Description:

Demonstration beforehand, outside Parliament, from 4pm to 5.30pm. See RMT website for more details

description:

Demonstration beforehand, outside Parliament, from 4pm to 5.30pm. See RMT website for more details

Location:
Committee Room 14, Houses of Parliament, London SW1

Trade Union Freedom Bill conference

Submitted on 29 December, 2011 - 12:58

Date:

10 May, 2006 - 11:15

Location:

NATFHE Centre, Britannia Street, London WC1

Description:

Cost
IER subscribers and members Â£75.00
Trade unions Â£90.00
Commercial Â£220.00

To reserve your place, send your cheque, made payable to IER, to Institute of Employment Rights, 177 Abbeville Road, London SW4 9RL

Cost
IER subscribers and members £75.00
Trade unions £90.00
Commercial £220.00

To reserve your place, send your cheque, made payable to IER, to Institute of Employment Rights, 177 Abbeville Road, London SW4 9RL

Meeting on anti-union laws and Gate Gourmet with John Hendy and Iqbal Vaid

Submitted on 29 December, 2011 - 12:58

Date:

10 April, 2006 - 21:30

Location:

West London Trade Union Club, 33-35 High St, Acton

Description:

Organised by Ealing Trades Union Council

Sparks defy bosses and anti-union laws

Submitted on 9 December, 2011 - 12:54

Author:

Darren Bedford

Electricians working for Balfour Beatty Engineering Services struck on Wednesday 7 December, the date on which new contracts which could mean a 35% pay cut for many workers were introduced by seven of the construction industry’s biggest contractors.

Replace the rule of profit with economic democracy

Submitted on 14 September, 2011 - 12:08

Author:

Editorial

At the TUC Congress on 12-14 September, unions backed a demonstration at the Tory party conference in Manchester on 2 October and announced plans for a huge strike by many public-sector unions against pension cuts in November.

Tories trail new anti-union laws

Submitted on 22 June, 2011 - 12:23

Author:

Darren Bedford

Predictably, the mainstream press has been full of suggestions, from figures such as “Paymaster General” Francis Maude MP, that the relatively low turnouts in some of the unions’ strike ballots for June 30 somehow delegitimises their actions.

Defend Our Right to Strike!

Submitted on 22 May, 2011 - 11:27

Unable to argue against the justice of striking to reinstate wrongfully-sacked Eammon Lynch and Arwyn Thomas, Boris Johnson and cohorts at the Standard resorted to rattling their sabres against our ve

Unions must fight for the right to strike

Submitted on 10 May, 2011 - 18:44

Author:

Editorial

Tory mayor of London Boris Johnson is campaigning for new laws to make it even more difficult for workers to defend our interests by striking. Prime minister David Cameron has said that he is "open to the idea".

Government will use troops to break POA strike

Submitted on 31 March, 2011 - 15:06

Author:

Stewart Ward

The British state is preparing to mobilise the army to break a prison officers' strike if they take action against the privatisation of Birmingham Prison.

A Rare Win in Court!

Submitted on 12 March, 2011 - 15:08

RMT has won a major court victory against injunctions preventing a strike on the Docklands Light Railway; and on the same day, ASLEF also won its appeal against an injunction banning strike action by its members working for London Midland.