Overview
- A right to strike?
- Scheme of the law
- Industrial action
- Strikes
Liability for industrial action
- Union liability in tort
- Breach of contract
- The industrial torts
- Criminal liability
Trade union immunities
- Scope of immunity
- Trade dispute
- ‘In contemplation or furtherance’
Loss of immunity
- Ballots and notice of industrial action
- Secondary action
- Dismissals during unofficial action
- Unlawful picketing
- Union-only and recognition clauses
- Enforcing union membership
Industrial action ballots
- Preliminary considerations
- Entitlement to vote
- Separate workplace ballots
- Ballot requirements
- Period of effectiveness
Picketing
- Statutory protection for picketing
- Loss of protection
- Civil liability
- Criminal liability
- Protection from Harassment Act 1997
- Secondary picketing
Remedies for unlawful action
- Injunctions
- Damages
- Action by union members
- Action by individuals
Industrial action dismissals
- Dismissal during unofficial action
- Dismissal during ‘protected’ official action
- Dismissal during ‘non-protected’ official action
Industrial action and employment rights
- Detriment short of dismissal
- Pay
- Redundancy payments
- Guarantee payments
- Continuity of employment
- Notice rights
- Time-off rights
Industrial pressure to dismiss
- Redeployment
- Causation
- Contributory conduct
- Joinder of third parties
- Right not to be subjected to detriment
