UK union leader’s mass defiance warning over ‘attempt to ban strikes’

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Exclusive: Fire Brigades Union chief speaks as TUC prepares response to minimum service laws passed this year

New government anti-strike laws for public sector workers could prompt the start of a campaign of mass defiance not seen since the 1970s, a union leader has warned.

Matt Wrack, the general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said the minimum service levels legislation passed earlier this year was effectively a ban on strikes, and the biggest attack on the rights of workers since the second world war.

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