TUC complains to UN watchdog over ‘undemocratic’ UK anti-strike law

Trade union body says British government move is in breach of international law'

The Trades Union Congress has lodged a complaint with the UN's labour standards body claiming the UK government flouted the watchdog's orders over its newly enforced undemocratic" anti-strike law.

Paul Nowak, the general secretary of the organising body for trade unions in England and Wales, said it had taken its case to the International Labour Organization (ILO) because the strike act was in breach of international law.