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To: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

Protect the right to strike!

TUC Campaigns

Through the Employment Rights Act, the Labour government repealed the Minimum Service Levels Act. This is an important part of the campaign to protect the right to strike that wouldn't have been possible without you.

Hundreds of thousands of you signed petitions, lobbied your MPs, and took to the streets in protest. Frontline workers sent handwritten letters to peers in the House of Lords, helping to delay the bill in Parliament again and again.

Thank you! You can read more about the win here: https://www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/win-our-right-strike

Our right to strike is under attack.



Rishi Sunak has just detailed his anti-union legislation and plans to introduce new laws in the coming weeks.

It means that when workers democratically vote to strike, they could be forced to work and sacked if they don’t. That’s wrong, unworkable, and almost certainly illegal.

These new laws are a direct attack on working people’s fundamental right to strike to defend their pay, terms and conditions.

Why is this important?

This government has gone from clapping key workers to threatening them with the sack if they take lawful action for a pay rise.

Instead of listening to the concerns of working people and negotiating fair deals, Rishi Sunak has decided to undermine the right to strike.

As the cost-of-living crisis continues to hurt workers everywhere, we need to be able to stand together and choose to strike when we must. These laws will do nothing to fix this crisis - they will make it even harder for working people to get pay rises.

Every working person is under attack from these new laws. Add your name and join the campaign. We must defend the right to strike.

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Updates

2026-06-30 13:21:44 +0100

Petition is successful with 281,809 signatures

2023-01-25 12:51:58 +0000

200,000 signatures reached

2023-01-21 09:53:59 +0000

150,000 signatures reached

2023-01-11 20:36:02 +0000

100,000 signatures reached

2023-01-06 09:34:52 +0000

50,000 signatures reached