Category Archives: Trade Union Bill

Can you help convince your MP to oppose this bad Bill?  Click here to read more

Good news.
The remaining bill will still mean unions require a 50% turnout threshold for industrial action ballots, a 40% threshold of eligible workers for any form of industrial action in “important” public services including education and border security, and new rules on picketing.  Click here to read more.

The Lords’ Report Stage is 19 April http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/tradeunion.html

The government was defeated in three votes on the Trade Union Bill in the House of Lords last week.  Click here to read more.

Here is a link to the Lords debate

Following on from our AGM and the talk given by John Noblemunn on the TU Bill there is still time to email your objections to this vicious Bill to any or as many of  the Lords as you want.  Click here for a list of members of the House of Lords.   Click here to sign up to the campaign.

International Labour Organisation requests that ministers look at proposals to lift ban on agency workers replacing those who are on strike.  Click here to read more.

Did you know that trade unions gave the world weekends, a national minimum wage and holiday and sickness pay. Oh, and ended child labour?

This Bill will undermine employees’ ability to make their voice heard at work and hand more power over to employers. It is vital to defeat the Bill.  Click here to sign the petition

Access report here of 11 January debate http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/tradeunion/stages.html