Making “non-compliance” a reality
The Trades Union Congress meets for a special congress on Saturday 9 December, to discuss the new “minimum service levels” anti-strike laws and resistance to them. The congress is scheduled only for a few hours, and it seems likely most unions’ delegations will be just senior national officials. There has been no opportunity for wider democratic scrutiny of whatever proposal the TUC general council plans to put to the congress, and therefore no opportunity for rank-and-file bodies within unions to propose amendments or additions. A lobby is planned outside the congress, but there is no...