.@pcs_union announce first legal challenge of Government’s anti-strike, Minimum Service Levels laws. In a letter before action, the union has threatened to take the decision to impose the regulations to a judicial review. Via @ThompsonsLaw 1/2 https://t.co/C6mOyFxvvS
Of all the disturbing and graphic images I’ve seen of the murderous siege on Gaza, this is one of the most upsetting and heartbreaking. It’s unimaginable. Don’t let anyone dehumanise them. Their lives are equal to yours. Their grief is equal to yours. This could all be stopped.
i don’t love this as a tactic but there is a delicious irony in getting a room full of people to be extremely upset that their viewing of a sanitised retelling of a revolution has been disturbed by an act of civil disobedience. nothing if not a good bit.
Represented by Thompsons’ @richardbs8, 11 unions, coordinated by @The_TUC, have won a High Court battle against the government’s ‘unlawful and irrational’ decision to implement agency worker regulations without consultation.
Read more below in @MirrorPolitics by @DaveBurke12. 👇
BREAKING 🚨🚨 | In a MAJOR defeat for this government, the High Court has ruled that new agency worker regulations are UNLAWFUL.
We took this government to court.
And we won.
A High Court judge has today found that the government acted ‘unlawfully and irrationally’ when implementing its new agency worker regulations.
Thompsons represented 11 trade unions, co-ordinated by @The_TUC, in this fight to protect trade union rights.
https://t.co/w9eMIBEgjk
#OTD 1948. Nye Bevan launches the NHS at Park Hospital in Manchester.
"No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of a lack of means"
A thread on his battle to introduce it 👇
🚨 More than 300 police officers in the UK have been reported for rape and 500 for sexual assault over the past five years
Read our latest investigation with @channel5_tv below 👇
https://t.co/Itl9XnvDMc
The UK government has rejected several amendments to the controversial Strikes (Minimum Services) Bill, despite an 'emergency protest' staged by unions and organised by @The_TUC outside parliament. 📜 #StrikesBill 🧵1/6
🚨Culture Wars Latest: Censoring UK’s most trusted voice on nature is shocking dereliction of BBC’s duty to public service broadcasting. It CANNOT allow truth on nature depletion to be victim in cynical culture wars stoked by populist Ministers #WildIsles https://t.co/uOXT3r4mnl
The Retained EU Law Bill returns to Parliament today where 4,000 pieces of EU law are at risk of being scrapped including:
❌ Parental leave
❌ Holiday entitlement
❌ Equal pay
❌ Rest breaks