Public Order Act imminent
The Minimum Service Levels anti-strike bill still has some way to go through the parliamentary process, but the Tories’ Public Order Bill will become law sooner. The Bill severely restricts the right to protest, bringing back the most extreme measures the government failed to get into the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act last year – including some that potentially impact the right to strike (see Amnesty International briefing ). The protests against the Police Act could have been much bigger if the labour movement had not sat them out, but they happened and many were lively. Yet there...