Rishi Sunak misled Parliament in his attack on the right to fair pay and strike today. So has Grant Shapps.

Sunak said at #PMQs that "the @ILO supports minimum service levels... they're present in France, in Italy, in Spain".

This is false - and they should correct it. 1/🧵 In France, unions only have to give 24 hours notice before a strike; in the UK it's *2 weeks*.

Everyone can take action, merci. No suing unions or sacking workers: Transport Code art L.1222-1 and Loi du 20 août 2008/790.

French workers do 3 hours less p/w + get paid more.

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Our case to sue #USS directors and protect pensions has a judgment.

It’s pathbreaking: we won the right to sue *at all*.

But it’s defective: permission refused based on the 1843 case, Foss v Harbottle. We’ll look to appeal.

What did it say? /1 🧵
bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/… First, our claims were the directors breached duties in the Companies Act 2006:

- a nonsense valuation, showing a £17.9 deficit, cutting benefits – by assuming assets grow 0.0% above CPI for 30 years. They grew 30% in 2 years. Directors cut anyway. /2
staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/new-uss-resear…