TUC welcomes strengthening of staff voice at work

Welcoming the Employment Relations Bill, that received Royal Assent yesterday (Thursday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:

This Bill contains significant union victories. Staff will have to be given information and be consulted over major changes to the business, as they currently are in Britain’s best companies. Trade unions will be able to recruit members in an environment free of underhand US style union-busting activities and will find it easier to exclude and expel far right activists in breach of union rules.

The Union Modernisation Fund the Bill establishes will enable unions to modernise in the same way the government has helped businesses adapt to grow in the modern economy.

Copies of the Employment Relations Act 2004 will be available from http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2004.htm

Information on the Employment Relations Act 2004 can be obtained from the DTI website on: