Surrey County UNISON branch

National Rally for Trade Union Freedom

7pm Thursday 1 March 2007

Committee Room 12, House of Commons (Nearest Tube: Westminster)

Confirmed Speakers include:
John McDonnell MP
Tony Benn
Tony Woodley [T&G General Secretary]
Bob Crow [RMT General Secretary]
Billy Hayes [CWU General Secretary]
Matt Wrack [FBU General Secretary]
Christine Blower [NUT Deputy General Secretary]
Roger Kline [UCU Head of Employment Rights]

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The Trade Union Rights and Freedoms Bill
The TUC has now finalised and published the content of the Bill. John McDonnell MP was drawn sufficiently high in the recent Private Members’ ballot to be able to publish the Bill in Parliament, and on March 2 John will publish the Trade Union Rights and Freedoms Bill.

To see the Bill follow this TUC link: http://www.tuc.org.uk/law/index.cfm?mins=560

If enacted the Bill would significantly strengthen trade union rights, including:

• Better protection for striking workers;
• Simpler and fairer industrial action balloting and notice procedures;
• Reform of the use of injunctions by employers;
• Allowing solidarity action in certain circumstances;
• Prevention of the use of replacement labour during strikes;
• Trade-union rights for prison officers.

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