The Ministry of Labour issued a letter based on the provision of Trade
Union Act and stated clearly that AUCPTRE is a junior staff union, and it is not expected to unionize senior staff and that SSASCGOC can only unionized senior staff and not expected to unionise junior staff.
The union countered that Article 25 of the Labor
Union Act states that employees should not be subjected to improper acts or unfavorable treatment, such as repression, because they join trade unions, participate in trade union activities, or hold trade union posts and support strikes.
"Perhaps what I am most proud of is when the Tories diluted workers' rights in England it was the work we did together as a Welsh Labour Government and a trade union movement that protected them through the Trade
Union Act."
The laws that would be repealed include the Peaceful Assemblies Act, the Communications and Multimedia Act, the Trade
Union Act, the Immigration Act, the Societies Act, the Police Act, the Universities and University Colleges Act, the Official Secrets Act, the Sedition Act, and the Printing Presses and Publicity Act.
It follows a strike ballot backed by 89% on a turnout of 73% - well above the turnout threshold of 50% set by the Trade
Union Act last year.
It passed the threshold in the Government's controversial Trade
Union Act, under which ballots need a 50% turnout for industrial action to go ahead.
Terry Pullinger It passed the threshold in the Government's controversial Trade
Union Act, under which ballots need a 50% turnout for industrial action to go ahead.
Under the Trade
Union Act 2016, industrial action can only go ahead lawfully when there has been a ballot turnout among union members of at least 50%.
Lancashire Police said nine people had been charged with obstruction of the highway and Trades
Union Act offences.
Last year, we established a fund to help limit the negative impact of the Trade
Union Act.