New bill means minimum service level must be in place or unions will lose legal protections from damages

Liz Truss has published controversial plans to make sure transport workers provide a minimum service level when they strike, ahead of a speech by Keir Starmer pledging to repeal all the Tories’ new anti-trade union laws.

As the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union warned of a new wave of rail strikes all winter, Truss brought forward a new bill to ensure that transport services keep running during strike action.

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