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A vote by pilots in Ireland on whether to take industrial action is due to end on Tuesday.

Another union spokesman said that a ballot on whether to take industrial action was still planned but had not yet been sent out.

The CWU informed Royal Mail last month that it would ballot more than 100,000 of its members over whether to take industrial action.

"Although we fully respect the rights of trade union members to take industrial action, (the) strike is disappointing," said Chief Executive John Barnes.

German union UFO denied a report in German magazine Der Spiegel which said UFO had threatened to take industrial action at the airline Condor.

ABUJA, Aug 1 (Reuters) - One of Nigeria's main oil and gas trade unions on Thursday threatened to take industrial action over a staffing dispute with Chevron.

FABI, the biggest union representing employees in the banking sector, said that if confirmed the job cuts would be "shameful", adding it was ready to take industrial action against the planned redundancies.

O'Leary told pilots in September that there would be "consequences" for any pilots who take industrial action and that some aircraft could be taken out of bases if it were to occur.

Over 4,000 employees who are members of the Unite union at five locations, including the Mini plant in Oxford and Rolls-Royce facility in Goodwood, were asked whether they wanted to take industrial action.

On Thursday, the union issued a statement in which it said it was prepared to take industrial action if certain demands, including the return to work of all "NUPENG executives", were not met by Chevron within 7 days.

In a statement, the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) said it was prepared to take industrial action if the U.S. oil major did not comply with its wishes within seven days over a reduction of the company's workforce.

"BMW bosses would do well to heed the growing sense of betrayal over their broken pension promises, which have already seen 96 per cent of workers saying they would take industrial action in a consultative ballot," Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey said in a statement.

"Our absolute priority is patient safety and making sure that the NHS delivers high-quality care 7 days a week – and we know that's what doctors want too, so it is extremely disappointing that the BMA have chosen to take industrial action which helps no-one," Hunt said in a statement.

Questions were raised about the POA's status in the 1990s. In 1994, a legal decision determined that it was illegal to induce prison officers to take industrial action - a law which had applied to police officers since 1919 - meaning that the POA could not call strike action amongst its members. New labour legislation introduced by the Conservative government in 1992 laid down that the POA could no longer be a trade union. This was reversed in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994, but prison officers were still denied the right to take industrial action.

On 31 October 2019, UCU reported that of 64 branches balloted, at least 43 had passed the 50% turnout threshold or were otherwise able to take industrial action. The national aggregate of votes (with four institutions still to be counted) achieved a 53% turnout with 79% voting for strike action.

'Higher Education Pay Vote to strike'. On the same day, UCU reported that of 148 branches balloted, at least 54 had passed the 50% turnout threshold or were otherwise able to take industrial action. The national aggregate of votes achieved a 49% turnout with 74% voting for strike action (with four institutions still to be counted).

Questions were raised about the POA's status in the 1990s. In 1994, a legal decision determined that it was illegal to induce prison officers to take industrial action - a law which had applied to police officers since 1919 - meaning that the POA could not call strike action amongst its members. New labour legislation introduced by the Conservative government in 1992 laid down that the POA could no longer be a trade union. This was reversed in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994, but prison officers were still denied the right to take industrial action. This right was restored in 2004 to prison officers in the public sector in England, Wales and Scotland, but not in Northern Ireland or to prison officers in the private sector.

The referees' association criticised the sentence for being too lenient, leading to media speculation that the referees would take industrial action. Speaking in October 2018, Kenny Clark said that the strike had not brought about an improvement in respect for referees. Clark was commenting in the days after a Livingston v Rangers game, where someone in a section of Rangers supporters hit an assistant referee with a coin.

Kloth joined the Union of Bookbinders and Paper Workers of Germany, and soon came to hold a variety of positions in the union. He also joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and was elected to Leipzig City Council in 1902. He became increasingly critical of the union leadership, which he accused of being too unwilling to take industrial action. In 1904, he was elected as president of the union, defeated Eugen Brückner.

As a leading figure on the London Trades Council, Coulson becamee known as a member of the "Junta", alongside Robert Applegarth, William Allan, Daniel Guile and George Odger. This consisted of a small committee which aimed to cautiously advance the cause of trade unionism.H. E. Musson, Trade Union and Social Studies, p.35 Of the leaders, Coulson was the most reluctant to take industrial action, and he led opposition to George Odger's more militant approach.

No mining could legally be done without being overseen by an overman or deputy. Their union, the National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS) with 17,000 members in 1984, was less willing to take industrial action. Its constitution required a two-thirds majority for a national strike. During the 1972 strike, violent confrontations between striking NUM and non-striking NACODS members led to an agreement that NACODS members could stay off work without loss of pay if they were faced with aggressive picketing.

According to the party's official website, The five-point policy platform of the Workers Party is as follows: # Opposition to all New Zealand and Western intervention in the Third World and all Western military alliances. # Secure jobs for all with a living wage and a shorter working week. # For the unrestricted right of workers to organise and take industrial action and no limits on workers' freedom of speech and activity. # For working class unity and solidarity – equality for women, Maori and other ethnic minorities and people of all sexual orientations and identities; open borders and full rights for migrant workers.

Section 8 requires two weeks' notice of industrial action is given to an employer (the employer can agree to one week), amending section 234A. Section 9 limits the right to take industrial action after a strike ballot to six months, or nine months if the employer agrees. Section 10 requires a "union supervisor" on each picket with an "approval letter" from the union, and must wear something that "readily identifies" them as the supervisor. Sections 11 and 12 replace TULRCA 1992 sections 84 and 84A, requiring union members to opt into a political fund, and be given details about how the money will be used.

In 1945 the Diet passed Japan's first ever trade union law protecting the rights of workers to form or join a union, to organize, and take industrial action. There had been pre-war attempts to do so, but none that were successfully passed until the Allied occupation.Kimura, Shinichi, Unfair Labor Practices under the Trade Union Law of Japan A new Trade Union Law was passed on June 1, 1949, which remains in place to the present day. According to Article 1 of the Act, the purpose of the act is to "elevate the status of workers by promoting their being on equal standing with the employer".

The ITWF told its partners to not negotiate with Viking and hinder its business. Viking Line ABP responded by seeking an injunction in the English courts, claiming that the industrial action would infringe its right to freedom of establishment under TEC art 43, now TFEU art 49. The High Court of Justice granted the injunction, but the Court of Appeal of England and Wales overturned the injunction on the balance of convenience.See American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon Ltd [1975] 1 All ER 504 It held that there were important issues of EU law to be heard, given that, in the words of Waller LJ, it affected the "fundamental rights of workers to take industrial action".

In January 2008, the Home Secretary announced that the government planned to reintroduce powers to ban strikes by Prison Officers in England and Wales. However, the Scottish Government has ruled out similar measures for Prison Officers in Scotland. Undeterred by the restriction upon the ability to take industrial action, on 10 May 2012 the POA called a 5-hour strike action in support of fellow TUC affiliated Trade Unions in protest against the Government imposed changes to the Civil Service Pension Scheme. This strike action launched the emotive campaign "68 is too late" which led the way in the POA's struggle towards raising public awareness that POA members do one of the most dangerous jobs in society.

He joined the Assistant Masters' Association (AMA), and from 1964 worked as its full-time Assistant Secretary. In 1978, the AMA merged with the Association of Assistant Mistresses to form the Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association, and Beynon became its joint general secretary the following year."Beynon, Ernest Geoffrey", Who Was Who As joint leader of the union, Beynon championed the introduction of a "conscience clause", meaning that even if the union voted to take industrial action, individual members could decide not to take part. In 1986, he signed the Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill, which removed union negotiating rights and introduced performance-related pay, something he described as one of his "most difficult decisions".

The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c 4)Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which makes significant changes in many areas of the criminal justice system in England and Wales and, to a lesser extent, in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In particular, it changes the law relating to custodial sentences and the early release of prisoners to reduce prison overcrowding, which reached crisis levels in 2008. It also reduces the right of prison officers to take industrial action, and changed the law on the deportation of foreign criminals. It received royal assent on 8 May 2008, but most of its provisions came into force on various later dates.

Torquay Hotel Co Ltd v Cousins [1969] 2 Ch 106 is a UK labour law case concerning the liability of a union when its members take industrial action. In it Lord Denning MR invented a new economic tort for interference with a contract. This was not there before, because economic torts had only existed where the result of some action was unlawful, for instance the breach of a contract, intimidation (see Tarleton v McGawley (1793) 1 Peake 270) or conspiracy to injure. The House of Lords has subsequently rejected the existence of a separate tort for interference with a contract which can be constituted without unlawful actions or without a contractual breach.

The association balloted its members to find out if they wanted to take industrial action over the issue, stating, "It is important to gauge the view of our members through the ballot box, and if it is their will the POA will take clear and decisive action against the privatisation of Birmingham and Featherstone 2." Steve Gillian, the general secretary of the POA, said that "This is a disgraceful decision which is politically driven and morally repulsive." The military were placed on standby should the POA take the threatened strike action. Clarke was questioned in the Commons at the time of the announcement by constituency MP Gavin Williamson regarding the levels of staff training provided to the new prison compared to the two other publicly run prisons also located nearby.

Anna McKie, 'UK university staff to vote on strike action in pay dispute', Times Higher Education (29 June 2018). UCU formally declared a trade dispute on 24 July 2018.'HE national negotiations 2018-19' (accessed 11 September 2018). On 21 August 2018, UCU served statutory notice of its intention to ballot members for industrial action regarding the 2018-19 national pay dispute. The ballot opened on 30 August 2018. On 22 October 2018 UCU announced the results of the ballot. Although the majority of Union members who voted elected to take industrial action, the turnout only passed the 50% of members required by the Trade Union Act 2016 at seven universities (alongside which three Northern Irish universities, unaffected by the legislation, also voted to strike).'Trade union laws frustrate national support for strike action on pay' (22 October 2018).

The strike brought to the attention of unions and the UK government a potential ambiguity in UK legislation: migrant workers on Tier 2 and 5 visas have an annual 20-day limit on unpaid absence from work.Tyler Denmead, 'Tier Two Worker Remote Office: Resisting the Marketization of Higher Education', Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 16:1 (2019), 6-34, . As some universities had seen local strike action during 2017–18 in addition to the 14 days of national strike action, fears arose that staff members who were on strike for more than 20 days in a year might have their visas revoked, and that this might in turn impinge on their legal rights to take industrial action. On 12 July, the home secretary Sajid Javid declared that it was "not the government’s policy to prevent migrant workers from engaging in legal strike action" and that he would introduce changes to the rules and guidelines on immigration to be explicit that strike action did not count as "unpaid absence".