TUC to accuse Government of getting ‘broken Britain’
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he chief of the TUC will accuse the Conservatives of getting “broken Britain”.
In his keynote speech to the TUC Congress in Liverpool, basic secretary Paul Nowak will declare that “nothing works in this country anymore and no-one in Government cares”.
He will say: “They’ve had 13 years to sort out crumbling concrete in our schools, but five days before the new term they tell schools they can’t open.
“Because – and I quote the Education Secretary – everyone ‘sat on their arses’.
“Could you think of a more perfect metaphor for this Government? A crisis of their making, but someone else gets the blame.
“Yet, this Government that can’t keep our rivers clean, or run trains on time, or run a functioning NHS can find time to attack the right to strike.”
Mr Nowak attacked the controversial new regulation on strikes, which might be debated on the convention on Monday.
He will say: “The right to strike is fundamental. Without the right to withdraw our labour workers, become disposable, replaceable and exploitable.
“This new law isn’t about preserving services for the public.
“It’s about telling us to get back in our place and to not demand better.
“Well, that’s not going to happen – not on our watch.
“We fought their attack on the right to strike in parliament and we’ll fight it at the ILO (International Labour Organisation) and in the courts.
“When the first worker is sacked for refusing to work on a strike day, we’ll fight it in workplaces and on the picket lines.
“This movement will fight it every single day until it is repealed.”
The TUC is reporting the Government to the United Nations staff rights watchdog over the brand new regulation.
Mr Nowak stated the union physique can be lodging the case on the ILO as a result of the laws on making certain minimal ranges of service throughout industrial motion “falls far short” of worldwide authorized requirements.