Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History

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The bargaining unit is the group of employees the trade union can act or decide specific things for, through a 'collective agreement'. This includes:

When it comes to organising strikes, a union first has to hold a ballot (a vote) to see how many union members are in favour or striking and how many are against. If enough members feel they are being unfairly treated and they want to go on strike, the union will then begin to organise the strike. Overall, all these scores for strikinga.com are consistent, so there is some medium-risk involved. Therefore, caution is advised if you're about to engage. The move, agreed by the union's executive committee, means there will be strike action in different parts of the civil service from 27 March until the end of April - including passport workers, who are walking out for five weeks until 6 May.The registrar may take this action if they have reasonable cause to believe that a company is not carrying on business or in operation. The registrar may take this view if: After the proposed March strike dates were called off, Rachel Harrison, GMB national secretary, said: "GMB ambulance workers announced a tightening of the derogations for cover on strike days.

Companies dissolved on or after 1 October 2007 following any form of liquidation have 6 years from the date of dissolution.In response to all the recent strike action, the government has brought in a new law known as the anti-striking bill. This law essentially gives the government the right to limit the levels of strike action that unions are allowed to take. Strikes can impact education, for example when teachers go on strike this can mean lessons or lectures are cancelled.