Unions launch marketing campaign to guard proper to strike in opposition to anti-strike legal guidelines

‘Strike Map, who launched the marketing campaign, introduced yesterday that inside just a few hours, representatives for over 50,000 employees had already signed the letter supporting the proper to strike.’

A commerce union marketing campaign has been launched to withstand laws which might undermine the proper to strike.

Strike Map, who launched the marketing campaign, introduced yesterday that inside just a few hours, representatives for over 50,000 employees had already signed the letter supporting the proper to strike.

An open letter, backed by commerce unions and written to the Prime Minister, urges Rishi Sunak to reject new anti-strike legal guidelines, calling them “undemocratic and authoritarian”. The letter tells Sunak, “Must you proceed, you’ll face the decided opposition of employees. We goal to construct a mass motion of tens of millions to defeat your plans.”

The marketing campaign, which inspires individuals to signal their office to the collective letter, is being supported by commerce unions together with ASLEF and the Hearth Brigade Union, in addition to the Morning Star and The Peoples Meeting.

This highlights the massive backlash in opposition to the anti-strike laws put ahead by the federal government, which threatens to allow employers in training, ambulance, well being, hearth, rail and nuclear commissions to sue unions and sack employees if minimal ranges of service aren’t met.

Union leaders have come out in opposition to the oppressive laws, with RMT Common Secretary Mick Lynch calling it, “an outrageous assault on our civil liberties and on democracy in our nation.”

Mick Whelan, ASLEF’s basic secretary, has additionally condemned the proposals as a direct assault on commerce union actions and employees elementary human rights.

In a press release, Whelan stated: “Rishi Sunak, fairly than doing the respectable factor – the proper factor – and negotiate with us, is attempting, successfully, to ban industrial motion. That’s what authoritarian governments in authoritarian states do.

“That is – or must be – a free nation. Wherein it’s attainable – and authorized – to withdraw your labour. Which is, in any case, a elementary human proper. Solely in slave societies do they pressure women and men to work.”

Riccardo la Torre, Nationwide Officer for the Hearth Brigade Union, put it succinctly in a latest interview with LBC: “To successfully pressure individuals to work in opposition to their will as soon as they’ve organised and democratically voted for strike motion, after exhausting all different avenues to deal with pay that has been attacked, pay that has been stagnating for over a decade, a disaster of this governments making.

“As soon as they democratically determined to take away their labour to try this, it’s a elementary democratic proper that they need to be allowed to take action.”

Hannah Davenport is commerce union reporter at Left Foot Ahead

Left Foot Ahead’s commerce union reporting is supported by the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Belief

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