NASUWT launches legal challenge over strike breaking regulations

he NASUWT-The Teachers’ Union is issuing legal action against the Government over its decision to allow the use of agency workers to cover for striking workers and effectively break strikes.

The NASUWT believes that the new regulations violate fundamental trade union rights, including the right to strike.

The Government’s actions also undermine the long-standing national and international acceptance that agency workers should not be used to replace those on strike, as enshrined in international conventions such as the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Code of the World Employment Confederation, to which trade bodies representing the employment agencies and businesses, such as the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), are signed up to.