Posted 12/9/2023, 4:24:00 PM
Unions Vow Backlash Over Sunak's Minimum Service Strikes Law
- Rishi Sunak facing backlash over new law ensuring minimum service levels during strikes, as unions threaten disruptive industrial action over Christmas
- Major trade unions agree to "build mass opposition" to law, use "all means necessary" to defeat it
- Law aims to ensure minimum staffing for rail, border force, ambulance services during strikes
- Unions warn of nationwide "name and shame" campaign against employers using law, "novel" industrial action like work-to-rule
- Union leaders condemn law as attacking right to strike, warn it could prolong disputes rather than resolve them