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Transport targeted for new raft of Tory anti-union laws
General Secretary Mick Cash said; "This morning the Tory Government confirm that transport is one of the sectors that they will be targeting with their new wave of oppressive anti-union laws as they seek to ban strikes by the back...
Region: National
Tagged with: anti-union laws,
RMT motion on anti-union laws carried overwhelmingly
A key motion from transport union RMT setting out a strategy for fighting the Tory Trade Union Bill has been overwhelmingly carried at the TUC this morning. Moved by RMT president Peter Pinkney the motion calls for mass mobilisations and...
Region: National
Tagged with: anti-union laws, tuc, rmt, peter pinkney
RMT responds to new raft of anti-union laws
The response of this Government mirrors the actions of hard-right regimes throughout history - shackle the unions, criminalise it's members and use a raft of new laws to try and bankrupt workers' organisations.
"It is not lost on us that this...
Region: National
Tagged with: anti-union laws
RMT on Queen's Speech attack on unions
This is the clearest possible case of one law for the political class and another for the working class. Only a tiny handful of the hypocrites advocating these ballot thresholds has ever been elected on the same kind of percentages...
Region: National
Tagged with: queens speech, anti-union laws
MP's call for justice for RMT official Mark Harding
MP's call for justice for RMT official Mark Harding as he faces imprisonment under UK anti-union laws
MPs and trade union leaders have issued a statement calling for London Underground RMT Branch Official Mark Harding to receive a fair trial...
Region: National