Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.371.73
Object Name
Badge
Title
Stuff the Employment Act Defend Our Unions
Place
UK
Events
Employment Act 1980
Description
Purple badge with a cream band in the centre, reading "Stuff the 'Employment' Act Defend Our Unions!"
The Employment Act was an Act of Parliament introduced by the Conservative government in 1980, aiming at restricting unions' power to go on strike. This Act restricted picketing to disallow mass-pickets and 'flying pickets' by defining lawful picketing as "those who were themselved party to the dispute and who were picketing at the premises of their own employer".
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