Strike ballots
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-02-24Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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•The idea of making secret postal ballots the condition for any lawful strike is not given much support, on the grounds that it would lead to a loyalty vote of confidence in the leadership and proiong disputes, or it might lead to unofficial stoppages or more limited action such as overtime bans.
•One alternative would be "triggered" ballot which could be held if a certain proportion of union members requested it. "If the demand comes from within the union it cannot so easily be EXTREMISTS BLA ZATIC MMol3 SCAT EFT Mavăn •The Green Paper is fairly lukewarm on these proposals. Apart from problems such as what sanction to use and the wording of the ballot, Tebbit is worried that any system of enforced strike ballot would blow the gaff and show quite vividly — as the one use of similar provisions in the Industrial Relations Act on British Rail in 1972 showed - that workers are not dragged, kicking and protesting, into a strike by militant leaders. Strikes are often popular and leaders do a bloody good job stopping them.
The aim here is probably not legislation but to get unions to voluntarily adopt secret postal ballots before industrial action.
THANK GOODNESS FOR THE POSTAL BALLOT.
NOW I CAN VOTE WITHOUT BEING MANIPULATED!
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PICRETS CLASH Frances Bozie
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