UK unions seek legal review of government’s strike-breaking laws

TUC leads legal action over ministers' plans to allow agency workers to replace striking staff

Trade unions have launched legal proceedings against the UK government, arguing that new laws allowing companies to use agency workers to break strikes are a broad daylight" attack on the right to take industrial action.

Eleven trade unions, led by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), have sought permission for a judicial review of new regulations making the change.