The Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) has announced that the number of applications it received for trade union recognition last year rose by half (54%).
In its annual report, the CAC said that it had received 43 applications for trade union recognition in the year ending 31 March 2012, a significant rise from the 28 applications received the previous year.
However, chairman of the CAC, Sir Michael Burton, noted that this was a return to the level of applications for trade union recognition two years ago, when there were 42 applications.
He commented in the report: “The number of applications dealt with by the CAC showed a noticeable increase over the previous year. This was almost entirely due to a rise in the number of applications for statutory recognition from 28 to 43, thus returning to the level of two years ago.
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“It would be presumptuous of me to identify this as a trend but it is noticeable that the range of employment groups covered by these applications has broadened, albeit incrementally, as the years have passed.”
