The current legal framework governing industrial action and strikes results from the legislation passed by the Conservative governments of the 1980s and 1990s. It is legislation which Labour governments from 1997 onward have left intact.
r an injunction to have the proposed strikes declared unlawful. The unwieldiness of the balloting and notification procedures to which the trade unions are submitted in case of strikes contrasts with the opportunity of obtaining an injunction for the employers to prevent such work stoppages. By Professor Gregor Gall, Research Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Work and Employment Research Unit (WERU), University of Hertfordshire. (Ref. 100285)
The current legal framework gover
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