Help us raise funds to organise against Tory anti-strike laws

Free Our Unions is organising action to stop new anti-union laws – and for a coordinated national campaign against this threat and against existing anti-union laws, led by our unions. 

POSTPONED: Free Our Unions fringe meeting at TUC Congress: Tuesday 13 September, 6pm

Following the postponement of TUC congress, we have postponed our planned fringe meeting.

Next organising meeting: 7pm, 7 September

Free Our Unions will meet regularly throughout August and September to discuss and plan activity to resist threats of new anti-union laws, and build campaigning against existing ones.

New briefing on threatened new anti-strike laws

We’ve produced a briefing for trade union activists on Liz Truss’s plans for new anti-strike laws. Please download, print, and circulate in your workplace. The briefing is also available in booklet form here.

New video: a two-minute guide to Liz Truss’s anti-strike plans

We’ve produced this short video to give you a two-minute guide to prospective prime minister Liz Truss’s plans for new anti-strike laws.

Next organising meeting: 7pm, 17 August

Join us at our next organising meeting.

MODEL MOTION: Organise against Truss’s anti-strike threats

We encourage supporters to pass this model motion in their union branches.

Organising meeting: 7pm, Wednesday 3 August

With the next Prime Minister highly likely to introduce severe new restrictions on the right to strike, the labour movement must organise to resist. Free Our Unions will be holding an open organising meeting on Wednesday 3 August at 7pm, to discuss what activity we can organise directly, and how to work with, and within,

Green Party deputy leader candidates: speak out for free trade unions!

Following our candidates’ pledge for the recent Momentum NCG elections, Free Our Unions supporters in the Green Party have issued a pledge for candidates in the party’s deputy leadership election. The pledge, below, asks candidates to commit to using their positions to promoting and building solidarity for workers’ action, and supporting a fight to repeal

Momentum NCG candidates pledge

Momentum, the left-wing network in the Labour Party, is about to hold elections for its National Coordinating Group (NCG). Free Our Unions has worked with Momentum before, collaborating with the Fire Brigades Union in 2021 to submit a motion to Momentum’s Policy Primary. This year, we’re asking NCG candidates to commit to promoting strikes, and