Unison warns of illegal strike over govt. rules
The head of Britain’s largest public sector union threatens illegal strikes if the government tightens rules to make it harder to hold industrial action.
Head of the 1.3-million-strong Unison, Dave Prentis also threatened to call for illegal strikes against job losses and pay restrictions, if the government tightens the rules to make it harder to hold industrial action.
Prentis told the Independent that “nothing is ruled out” in the long conflict against a “vindictive” and “hostile” government, which could produce the kind of confrontation between government and unions not seen since the 1980s.
He said the union is gearing up for a ten-year battle against a “hostile” government.
Unison is furious about planned legislation to withdraw legal protection from any union that calls a strike, supported by fewer than 40 percent of all those eligible to vote.
Union leaders say such a move threatens to cripple their ability to fight an austerity program which they fear could see 800,000 public sector jobs disappear by 2019.
Unison, the main union for local government and NHS staff, called 700,000 council employees and 400,000 health workers on strike last.
Next month, it will hold a special conference of union members who are also members of the Labour Party to decide whether to back any of the current candidates for the Labour leadership.
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