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under threat as DUP try to block it, attempting to act as a veto for business interests. These are basic protections workers have elsewhere, the cannot be allowed hold back better rights and supports for ordinary workers and their families.
We all know the truth - what employers refuse to say - they don’t want a trade union about the place. Instead they are making nonsense arguments about a lack of consultation. Unions supported a 12 week consultation period - DfE had over 100 engagements with employers organisations from 2024. If they aren’t happy with the bill that’s the fault of employers associations who now cannot expect to tear down the process for everyone else.
Don’t buy the nonsense and don’t let the DUP rob you of better workplace protections.
📢Make your voice heard. Speak up, contact your MLAs, complain to the DUP. The executive must be allowed to debate the bill which is supported by a majority of all our communities - anything else is an affront to any concept of democracy Stormont claims to hold.
Northern Ireland Committee Irish Congress of Trade Unions Unite the Union, Northern Ireland Unison Northern-Ireland Equity NIPSA - Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance Nasuwt Northern Ireland Fermanagh Council of Trade Unions Ballymena and Antrim Trade Union Council GMB Union North West & Irish Irish National Teachers' Organisation NI BURC Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre Derry Trades Union Council Mid-Ulster Trade Union Council Ulster Teachers' Union The Communication Workers Union CWU Northern Ireland Telecoms Branch Ucu Ulster
