Unison, PCS, NUT, and CWU should learn from the prison officers' action!
What is the government going to do with the illegally striking prison officers? Send them all to jail? The strike on 29 August by prison officers showed up the union leaders who have been dithering and "consulting" and making calculatedly vague threats of future action for months about Gordon Brown's imposed cut in real wages. Brown insists that public sector pay rises be limited to 2% at a time when inflation is 5%. The strike was doubly illegal. The Tory government in 1994 made all strikes by prison officers illegal. And anyway, under the general Tory anti-union laws, continued by Blair and...