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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kalyeena Makortoff

TUC complains to UN watchdog over ‘undemocratic’ UK anti-strike law

RMT members on a picket line outside Liverpool Lime Street station in July 2023.
RMT members on a picket line outside Liverpool Lime Street station in July. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

The Trades Union Congress has lodged a complaint with the UN’s labour standards body claiming the UK government flouted the watchdog’s orders over its newly enforced “undemocratic” anti-strike law.

Paul Nowak, the general secretary of the organising body for trade unions in England and Wales, said it had taken its case to the International Labour Organization (ILO) because the strike act was in breach of international law.

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