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Jul 13, 2023 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING 🚨🚨 | In a MAJOR defeat for this government, the High Court has ruled that new agency worker regulations are UNLAWFUL.
We took this government to court.
And we won.
This ruling is a huge blow to Conservative ministers’ attempts to undermine the right to strike.
May 3, 2023 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
NEW 🚨 | Today we begin our High Court legal challenge against this government - to protect the right to strike.
Here's why.
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The challenge has been brought by 11 trade unions, coordinated by the TUC.
We're fighting this government’s changes to the law - which allow agencies to supply employers with workers to fill in for those on strike.
Jan 5, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING🚨| The government has announced anti-strike legislation.
When workers democratically vote to strike, they can be forced to work and sacked if they don’t. This is wrong, unworkable, and almost certainly illegal.
This is an attack on the right to strike. It’s an attack on working people. And it’s an attack on one of our longstanding British liberties.
Oct 16, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING 🚨🚨 | Our new poll reveals:
❌ Jacob Rees-Mogg
❌ Boris Johnson
❌ Priti Patel
Are all set to get voted OUT at the next General Election.
Data from a new MRP poll we've commissioned with Opinium reveals:
The Tories will face a huge voter BACKLASH if it rips up key workplace protections which originated from EU law.
Voters are rejecting Tory attacks on workers’ rights.
Aug 23, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING 🚨🚨 | We've just launched our campaign for a £15 minimum wage.
Millions of low-paid workers are being pushed to the brink by eye-watering bills and soaring prices.
Yet companies are making record profits and handing massive pay rises to those at the very top.
Jul 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING 🚨⚡️| We are now calling for public ownership of energy companies.
The energy cap is expected to increase to £3,200, up over 150% in just a year.
Public ownership would:
✅ Reduce bills
✅ Speed up energy efficiency improvements to homes
✅ Cut carbon emissions faster
The TUC’s Affordable Energy Plan would keep bills down by:
✅ Ending shareholder dividends, making more money available to cut bills
✅ Unlocking incentives to make homes energy efficient
✅ Enabling pricing structures with much lower costs for basic energy needs
Apr 16, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
One NHS, many nationalities
Tonight let’s clap for them, for every NHS worker & every carer.
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