Thousands of trade unionists today converged on Westminster to lobby their MPs to vote against the Trade Union Bill.

The TUC says the Bill, which is also opposed by Amnesty International, Liberty and the British Institute of Human Rights, is an attack on unions ability to organise in the workplace and a threat to UK workers’ right to strike.

If passed, it will allow employers to bus in agency workers to break strikes, force councils, health trusts and other public bodies to break agreements with unions over the collection of union subscriptions, create a powerful Certification Officer with legal powers to raid union offices even when there has been no complaint, restrict the way some unions collect money for the Labour Party, introduce new restrictions on picketing and protests during a strike, including forcing strike leaders to wear armbands to identify themselves and making unions having to tell police and employers what they might post on social media two weeks in advance.

Source: USI – Union Solidarity International | Thousands of trade unionists head to Westminster to lobby MPs