Confusing attention seeking assertions with facts, Personnel Today is running an 'exclusive' report that the UNISON pensions industrial action ballot could be “fatally flawed:”
http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2011/11/03/58127/unison-strike-ballot-could-be-fatally-flawed.html
The magazine prefers the opinions of one lawyer - that the absence of a reference on employer ballot notices to the aggregated ballot make it invalid - to those of another that "whilst the union has to decide at the outset whether it is aggregating the ballot across different employers it is under no obligation when giving notice to specify whether the ballot is aggregated or not."
This will no doubt be the first of many attempts to undermine the decisive vote for industrial action by UNISON members.
Next expect attacks on the basic principle of aggregated ballots. After all, this has long been a policy advocated in Liberal Democrat circles:
http://unisonactive.blogspot.com/2009/10/tories-advised-to-ban-national-public.html
