Industrial action will be lawful only if the trade union has complied with various statutory requirements, including those relating to balloting members and notifying the employer of intended industrial action.
If a union fails to comply with the relevant statutory requirements, the industrial action will be unlawful. This will give the employer grounds to apply for an injunction to stop the proposed industrial action.
Union leaders have condemned a government threat to make strikes on the railways illegal unless a minimum number of staff work during a walkout.
Post Office workers are on strike today (3 May) after recieving a pay offer that falls below the cost of living, according to a union.
A Network Rail regional director of communications has told rail workers about to take part in a national strike ballot...
More than 40,000 workers at Network Rail and 15 train operating companies are to be balloted for strike action in...
Staff at the Financial Conduct Authority have voted in favour of industrial action – a first for the financial services regulator.
Amazon is trying to overturn an historic vote by its US workers to form a union for its workers.
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A recent Court of Appeal ruling that confirmed UK legislation does not protect striking employees from action short of dismissal has effectively 'given bosses the green light to discipline staff who strike', a union has claimed.
Unite threatens Royal Mail with industrial action over what it claims is a ‘fire and rehire’ scheme to replace managers.
Employers are able to sanction employees that take part in industrial action without breaching their human rights, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
UK ferry operator P&O Ferries has sacked about 800 crew across its fleet with no notice after stopping all its sailings on Thursday 17 March.
Criminal barristers have voted almost unanimously in favour of industrial action over what they describe as ‘chronic underfunding’ of the criminal justice system.
Rail commuters face misery today (1 March), as the highest train fare rises for nine years take effect while London’s Underground network is crippled by a strike.
Around 6,000 warehouse staff, clerical workers and HGV drivers based at Asda distribution centres have voted to take industrial action over pay.
Thousands of Airbus workers at its factories in North Wales and Gloucestershire have voted to strike in a dispute over pay.
University staff have today begun 10 days of strike action in their ongoing fight against pension changes, pay and working conditions.
