{"id":1537,"date":"2023-05-19T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2023-05-19T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:13:18","slug":"emergency-trade-union-protest-rally-to-protect-the-right-to-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=1537","title":{"rendered":"Emergency trade union protest rally to &#8216;protect the right to strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1538\" src=\"http:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PTRTS-rally-22-May-700x1134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PTRTS-rally-22-May-700x1134.jpg 700w, https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PTRTS-rally-22-May-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PTRTS-rally-22-May-768x1244.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PTRTS-rally-22-May-948x1536.jpg 948w, https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PTRTS-rally-22-May.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/>6pm, 22 May, Parliament Square, London<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The TUC and Unions are organising an emergency protest rally in Parliament Square, Westminster, from 6pm, 22 May. The date of the emergency rally coincides with the vote on the Minimum Services Level bill in the House of Commons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We want\u00a0MPs to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>First and foremost vote to REJECT the whole bill, and at the very least<\/li>\n<li>Vote to UPHOLD the four amendments passed in the House of Lords,<\/li>\n<li>And if House of Commons passes the legislation and the bill comes into law, MPs should PLEDGE to repeal it at the earliest opportunity, and no later than the first 100 days of a new government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5.5 million workers have their right to strike threatened because \u2013 if this bill is passed unamended \u2013 the Minimum Services Level bill will mean that when workers lawfully vote to strike in health, education, fire, transport, border security and nuclear decommissioning sectors, they could be forced to attend work \u2013 and sacked if they don\u2019t comply.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuc.org.uk\/news\/1-5-workers-right-strike-risk-because-governments-anti-strikes-bill\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.tuc.org.uk\/news\/1-5-workers-right-strike-risk-because-governments-anti-strikes-bill&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1684587636686000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1b4yB5ONX_mE6zX6nmjkX0\">Read more\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>ACTION<\/strong>:\u00a0Support and publicise the emergency protest rally<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>ACTION<\/strong>: Urge your members to sign the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.megaphone.org.uk\/petitions\/protect-the-right-to-strike?link_id=0&amp;can_id=932cd181ce80a02a5917cfa48c6c8bd8&amp;source=email-every-working-person-is-under-attack-from-this-bill&amp;email_referrer=email_1778920___subject_2276215&amp;email_subject=new-government-anti-union-laws-attack-our-right-to-strike\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.megaphone.org.uk\/petitions\/protect-the-right-to-strike?link_id%3D0%26can_id%3D932cd181ce80a02a5917cfa48c6c8bd8%26source%3Demail-every-working-person-is-under-attack-from-this-bill%26email_referrer%3Demail_1778920___subject_2276215%26email_subject%3Dnew-government-anti-union-laws-attack-our-right-to-strike&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1684587636687000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3iV26xDY1BE4xBhWvffDxb\">petition<\/a>\u00a0and add their name to the campaign. The TUC will then send them materials that they can lobby their MP with to &#8216;beat\u00a0this bill&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>ACTION<\/strong>: Get\u00a0campaign\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuc.org.uk\/ProtectRightToStrike\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.tuc.org.uk\/ProtectRightToStrike&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1684587636687000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2k7MaMixi9-rMI39GyByKM\">updates<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuc.org.uk\/ProtectRightToStrike\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.tuc.org.uk\/ProtectRightToStrike&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1684587636687000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2k7MaMixi9-rMI39GyByKM\">download<\/a>\u00a0campaign materials, such as artwork for placards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>ACTION<\/strong>: Use #RightToStrike in social media posts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>ACTION:\u00a0<\/strong>Retweet this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_TUC\/status\/1658150804895809537\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_TUC\/status\/1658150804895809537&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1684587636687000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2haNkFqC6esd32QNn5DZ04\">tweet<\/a>\u00a0to raise awareness of the Emergency Rally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6pm, 22 May, Parliament Square, London The TUC and Unions are organising an emergency protest rally in Parliament Square, Westminster, from 6pm, 22 May. The date of the emergency rally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaigns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}