The following information is taken from TUC website.
Our workers rights are under attack again.
Join us at Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham at 12pm on Saturday 27 January. Celebrate our history. Protest against the government. Stand up for your rights.
Forty years ago – on 25th Jan 1984 – Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government attacked trade union rights at GCHQ. Union members were told to resign their membership or be sacked. After a long campaign marked by the fortitude of the workers and their families, and the solidarity of the whole movement, they were reinstated when an incoming Labour government repealed the ban.
Today, the government is restricting the right to strike for over five million workers. The right to strike is a fundamental British liberty. We must defend it at all costs.
We have won before. We will win again. Join our march and rally on 27 January.
Further information can be found here.
