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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Chris McLaughlin

Trade unions prepare legal action against PM's 'hostile' crackdown on workers' rights

Trade unions are joining forces to legally challenge Liz Truss’s “hostile” crackdown on workers’ rights.

Eleven unions are preparing court action over moves to restrict the freedom to strike, in a move signalling a bruising winter of conflict between workers and the new PM.

Unions say new laws which allow bosses to bring in agency workers to ­replace striking staff are illegal in UK and ­international law.

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