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It makes the commitment to repeal the trade union Act and to develop positive rights for trade unions crucial
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Threshold – health workers like these will need to clear ‘double threshold’ to strike
to the certification officer, which regulates trade union activity.
And Wales is taking their fight one step further, as Labour Assembly members have vowed to repeal parts of the Act pertaining to devolved matters.
Unite and other trade unions have argued that much of the Trade union Act pertains to devolved matters, such as the public sector.
While it will be several months before any of the provisions in the Act come into
force – it is likely that most measures won’t be implemented until late October of this year – Unite will continue to campaign against the Act in its entirety.
The union hailed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnnell’s unreserved commitments to repealing the Act once Labour is in government – a pledge they made explicitly at Unite’s policy conference in July.
“We wrung important concessions from this government on the Trade Union Act because of the breadth of opposition we
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were able to bring together,” said Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner.
“But it remains a pernicious piece of legislation that attempts to weaken trade unions as the vehicle for people's collective action to improve their wages, terms and conditions and living standards,” he added.
“It also sits alongside their wider attempts to dismantle ways that people can oppose their policies – such as attacks on civil liberties. It makes the commitment to repeal the trade union Act and to develop positive rights for trade unions crucial.”
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