Union leader urges TUC to unite in defying planned anti-strike law

Matt Wrack addresses demonstrators outside Downing Street in January, after the government’s announcement of the proposed legislation. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

A leading trade union has called for a concerted campaign of defiance and civil disobedience against the government’s planned anti-strike laws.

Matt Wrack, the general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), urged a coordinated campaign among trade unions of “mass non-cooperation and non-compliance” against the minimum service levels bill.