In 1927, the Conservative government – scarred by the events of the previous year, passed the Trades Disputes Act, outlawing sympathy strikes and mass picketing.<\/p>\n
The act was repealed in 1946, but in the 1980s the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher reintroduced the ban.<\/p>\n
According to Torrance, The Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 “tidied up previous legislation”, would make another general strike “unlikely”.<\/p>\n
Today, the TUC’s director of organising, Sian Elliott, views the General Strike as a “turning point”, adding: “It showed what happens when working people refuse to accept declining pay and unfair conditions as inevitable. That moment reshaped the labour movement for generations.<\/p>\n
“While it didn’t achieve all of its aims, a century on the lesson is unchanged. Crucially, that collective action is still the most effective way for workers to win better pay, stronger rights and a fairer economy.”<\/p>\n
Schneer believes the TUC learned “valuable lessons” from the General Strike.<\/p>\n
“First of all, never to call another, unless prepared to overthrow the government, since a successful national general strike threatens everything a government is supposed to provide, most obviously provision of essential commodities and services.<\/p>\n
“Secondly, to stick to economic issues and to look to Parliament for political reform. <\/p>\n
“Thirdly, when calling a strike, to do so when most convenient to itself, and never to be pushed into one by the employers.”<\/p>\n
Dr Tony Collins will deliver a free talk on the General Strike at 12:30 BST on 12 May at Hull History Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1927, the Conservative government – scarred by the events of the previous year, passed the Trades Disputes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-562267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}