Protect the right to strike! Usdaw joins the TUC emergency protest and urges the Government to drop their anti-union legislation

Retail trade union Usdaw is calling on the Government to drop their Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill. Today the House of Commons will consider Lords amendments to the Bill, but the union is still calling for it not to go ahead. Usdaw has members joining a trade union demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament this evening.

Carer’s Leave Bill: Usdaw welcomes a step in the right direction and calls on the Government to make it paid leave

Retail trade union Usdaw welcomes Peers today passing the Carer's Leave Bill, which would give people with caring responsibilities a right to unpaid leave from work. The Bill is now set to becomes law after passing all its parliamentary stages. While welcoming this as a step in the right direction, Usdaw continues to call for the leave to be paid.

Usdaw welcomes the High Court hearing a TUC co-ordinated legal challenge to “strike-breaking” agency worker regulations

Retail trade union Usdaw is one of eleven trade unions who launched a judicial review of the Government's new regulations, which allows agency workers to fill in for striking workers and break strikes. The High Court hearing of this legal challenge begins today, concludes tomorrow and the result expected in a few weeks' time.