Submitted on Friday 18th November 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Amend current legislation to require the majority of union members to support industrial action
Under current legislation unions only require the support of the majority of their membership who actually vote in a ballot, rather than the support of the majority of their total membership before they can lawfully announce industrial action. In practice this can result in strikes being called on a very low turnout, sometimes with less than 20% of the total membership voting in favour of strike action. Therefore I propose that current legislation should be altered to require over 50% of the total membership of a union to vote in favour of industrial action before those members can be legally called out on strike.
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