Disruptive Strikes could be soon be made "illegal", as the governments new Anti Strike Laws go to their first reading in parliament.
Tuesday 10th Jan 2023 16:01pm
Government Ministers hope that the implementation of a new Minimum Service law that would effectively ban strikes if they cause major disruption to the countries public services could be passed within weeks bringing to a end the crippling disruption to the countries postal network & transport infrastructure, with workers putting their jobs at risk should they then go out on the picket lines causing disruption to other service users.
Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would repeal the laws if Labour won the next General Election
Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer branded the new laws “unworkable” & pledged that any Labour Government would repeal the laws almost as soon as the government came to power, however its claimed that for the time being at least, significant numbers of Conservative Mp's will vote in favour of the proposals, one of those being Hartlepool's MP Jill Mortimer, who's expected to be in keeping with the conservative whip & vote for the proposals.
Hartlepool's seen its postal workers & even ambulance staff walk out over pay & conditions
Many parts of the country have seen significant travel disruption, particularly in the run up to Christmas which seen workers undergo significant strike action in a dispute over pay & working conditions.
Workers for Royal Mail also staged action wanting a significant pay increase that bosses claimed was simply unreasonable in the current economic climate, with the government also seemingly unwilling to talk to union bosses who claim their pay proposals are poles apart from what the government is putting on the table to break the deadlock.
The government is fearful of massive disruption if unions coordinate a General Strike...
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is aware that a General Strike would pile massive pressure on the government to back down on union bosses demands....
The new strike laws however have the potential to inflame already strained tensions between the government & union bosses who are reportedly secretly coordinating efforts for strike actions to be undertaken by multiple unions on the same dates, paving the way for the first declared general strike in decades which would cause substantial disruption to the public.
The new laws would be the single biggest action taken on workers who lay down their tools since the Margaret Thatcher era of the 1980s
The governments hoping to avert such an action by unions by trying to implement swathing new laws to ban disruptive strike action as quickly as possible, with the government telling unions that should such an action be undertaken, the government will stop at nothing to see that such actions are dealt with swiftly, bringing back memories of the miners strikes of the 1980s which many say could lead to thousands of workers taking to the streets in protest of the governments proposed new laws.
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