See you in court | Workers are fighting back against Gov's 'strike-breaking' agency staff law

Unions have launched a fight back against new laws allowing firms to replace striking workers with agency staff.

Eleven trade unions, coordinated by the TUC (Trade Union Congress) and represented by Thompsons Solicitors, began legal proceedings to protect the right to strike this week.

The unions – ASLEF, BFAWU, FDA, GMB, NEU, NUJ, POA, PCS, RMT, Unite and Usdaw – have taken the case against the Government’s new regulations which allow agency workers to fill in for striking workers and break strikes.

It was in July 2022 that MPs approved controversial changes to the law, partly in response to the growing number of sectors, such as rail and postal workers, staging strikes over pay disputes and working conditions.