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Morning
Star article: McDonnell tackles union ballot abuse
Labour MP John McDonnell,
who was drawn first in the private members' Bill ballot, opted
to tackle abuse of trade union ballots by employers.
15 June 2010
Recent
judgments: upsurge in use of injunctions
BA granted an injunction to
stop a ballot of some 11,600 union members who had voted substantially
in favour of taking strike action beginning on the 18 May.
15
June 2010
Guardian
Letter: Restore Union Rights
Nick Clegg calls for nominations
for laws to be repealed, as part of a "power revolution". Anti-trade
union laws should be high on his list.
15
June 2010
RMT
contests anti-union laws at the ECtHR
At the end of May RMT lodged
an unparalleled challenge to the UK's anti-trade union laws in the European
Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
14 June 2010
The
Right To Strike: Hanging By a Thread
A
recent wave of litigation exploiting legal technicalities has undermined
the democratic decisions of workers and has ensured the right to take
industrial action remains loosely hanging by a thread.
14 June 2010
CON-DEM
government ushers in an era of 'austerity'
Trade union leaders have warned
the cuts will be even more brutal than those introduced under Thatcher.
Public sector unions say the impact for their members and for wider services
will be devastating.
14 June 2010
United
Campaign supports calls for public enquiry into the Shrewsbury Pickets
case
The
United Campaign is supporting two new Early Day Motions laid before the
House of Commons and we are encouraging all of our supporters to write
to their MP following the election.
27 April 2010
Election
Issues: Why does trade union freedom matter?
...because
restrictions on freedom limit the ability of unions to effectively fight
against poverty and rising inequality.
27 April 2010
All
these anti-union laws do is protect the rich and powerful
Alex Gordon, RMT President Responds
in the Guardian to the Injunction against the RMT
13 April 2010
'Democratic
rights for working people are illusory' - John Usher, UC Director writes
to the Guardian
When a Guardian editorial recently
suggested that the law on ballots for industrial action amounted to "reasonable
requirements" we responded immediately with a letter which is set
out below.
8 April 2010
ILO
committee call on UK government to review anti-union law
After
reviewing the BALPA case the UN's ILO Committee of Experts has just declared
that the decisions in Viking and Laval will have a further significant
restrictive effect on the right to strike and that this is contrary to
international fundamental freedoms.
19 March 2010
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