Up to 2 million members of the FBU, GMB, NUT, PCS, Unite and Unison unions in schools, local government, the civil service and the fire service walk out on July 10 over issues of pay rises and reform of pensions. Ahead of the largest strike since 2011, Cabinet Secretary Francis Maude announced that the Conservatives will fight the next general election on a platform of placing further restrictions on the right to strike.
Further restrictions on the right to strike. Maude indicated that the nature of the proposed measures in the election manifesto would see the requirement that when union members are balloted for industrial action (a strike or action short of a strike), a legal mandate for action will require at least 50% of all those balloted voting for action. Currently, unions must gain just a simple majority of those voting regardless of the turnout. Maude cited examples of the turnouts for the ballots for t
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