Ask your MP to vote against Minimum Service Levels
Ask your MP to stand with PCS members and other workers against proposed laws that would effectively criminalise strike action.
On Monday 27 November, MPs will have their final chance to stand with working people such as paramedics, rail workers, and the many thousands of PCS members in the Home Office who will be affected by new anti-strike regulations.
Email your MP using ActionNetwork (which automatically completes your email) before or on 27 November to send a clear message that the minimum service levels legislation is a blatant and vindictive attack on the right to strike for trade unionists, including our members in the Home Office who work as border security staff and in the Passport Office.
Announced during the King’s Speech, the Minimum Service Levels Act would limit the impact of a strike by forcing workers to maintain a level of service in the industry they work, through the use of minimum service levels (MSL).
The laws will mean that when workers legally vote to strike, they could be forced to attend work – and sacked if they don’t comply. Ministers are punishing working people for daring to fight for decent pay.
If the government gets its way, they will have the power to implement these regulations by Christmas. And they will next come for other workers, including teachers, hospital workers, university workers, and firefighters.
Dangerous and reckless
As part of our historic national campaign, Border Force and Passport Office members were among the hundreds of thousands of workers who took hard-hitting actions across 2023.
While they are an assault on the trade union movement, these proposed restrictions are also a strong endorsement of the fact that our members are invaluable to the running of the UK and national security.
If this legislation had been in place in 2023, our members would have been prevented from taking strike action – actions that helped win significant concessions on pay in addition to a cost-of-living payment.
PCS will join a special TUC congress in London on 9 December which will “explore options for non-compliance and resistance” to the government’s anti-trade union restrictions which represent a direct attack on workers’ rights.
Read more about how MSL will affect our members in the Home Office and please check back on the PCS website over the next few weeks for more content on these regulations.
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