Urge your MP to protest minimum service levels

PCS is asking members and MPs to demonstrate their opposition to proposed laws on minimum service levels that are today being discussed by various parliamentary committees. 

At 4:30pm today, a delegated legislation committee is considering the aspect of the Minimum Service Levels Act - announced during the King’s Speech – which would affect many thousands of our Home Office members, including border security staff and some members in the Passport Office.  

This legislation 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).  

Members of the PCS Parliamentary Group will be attending the committee to protest this blatant and vindictive attack on the right to strike for trade unionists.

But PCS is also asking all other MPs to advocate on behalf of their constituents and oppose MSL.  

Email your MP 

To increase the pressure, please email your MP using ActionNetwork to send a clear message that this is their final chance to stand with working people such as paramedics, rail workers, and the many PCS members in the Home Office who will be affected by new anti-strike regulations.  

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.   

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.  

Please check back on the PCS website over the next few weeks for more content on these regulations.  

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