Conservative plans will effectively end right to strike in the public sector, says TUC

Responding to manifesto proposals announced on Friday by the Conservative Party on thresholds for public sector strike ballots, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:

“The Conservatives know that this threshold will effectively end the right to strike in the public sector. No democracy elsewhere in the world has this kind of restriction on industrial action. It is a democratic outrage, especially as the Conservatives have opposed allowing secure and secret online balloting – the one measure guaranteed to increase turnouts.

“We know they plan to get rid of a million public sector jobs and cut the value of public sector pay every year in the next parliament if they win the election. Now they are also going to make it impossible for public sector workers to resist.”