The TUC has complied with its congress decision to call a national demonstration against the Tories' new anti-strike law, but called it in Cheltenham (for 27 January). The official reason is to celebrate the fight for union rights at GCHQ, which is in Cheltenham. However, Cheltenham is neither a big industrial city, nor a labour-movement stronghold, nor central to transport networks so that demonstrators can easily travel from the major cities. We will still work to make the protest as big as we can, but other modes of resistance will surely be necessary.
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The Minimum Service Bill, reaffirmed by the House of Commons on 22 May, says “an employer may give a work notice to a trade union in relation to any strike.” Does the use of the word “may”, rather than “will” or “must”, mean that employers could choose not to issue work notices? If so, there is surely scope for targeted campaigns focusing on, for example, Labour councils and Labour-controlled transport authorities not to issue work notices.