FDA marches to commemorate 40th anniversary of GCHQ union ban
FDA President Tony Wallace spoke at the event, sharing his memory from 1988 of hearing a speech from one of the “unassuming, studious, career-minded civil servants” who had been “thrust reluctantly into the limelight” when they were sacked for refusing to rescind their trade union membership. Wallace praised “the hundreds who fought for and won back the right to be a member of a trade union… Governments take on the trade union movement at their peril”.
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