This is despite previous strike action by Unite – based on the same ballot - having gone unchallenged by the employer. And at the same time both sides were committed to talks at ACAS.
This is the latest in a long line of judicial attacks on the right to strike in Britain in flagrant breach of ILO conventions. Unite made a mistake not appealing in December, as the late Mick McGahey once famously said ‘if you don’t stop running they don’t stop chasing’. Today’s appeal is vitally necessary and if unsuccessful the trade union movement must pool our resources to challenge these abuses of trade unionists human rights in the European courts.
But how much worse does it need to get before the TUC convenes a collective, fighting response rather than plaintively lament this repressive state of affairs? http://www.tuc.org.uk/law/tuc-17941-f0.cfm
Past generations of British trade unionists including under the Thatcher did not acquiesce to such fundamental attacks on union rights. Nor should we.
Further information
http://unisonactive.blogspot.com/2010/04/high-court-dances-to-anti-strike-tune.html
http://unisonactive.blogspot.com/2010/03/britains-anti-union-laws-breach-human.html