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September 30, 2019 at 9:36 pm #1442496

bigdave

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In regards to striking against a particular client, in the UK it’s totally illegal, I can only imagine it’s much the same in the US. The legality of industrial action in the UK is ultimately centred on whether or not the action you intend to take is a legitimate trade dispute between the employer and the union, if there’s any hint of it being part of a broader political agenda then the courts will totally shut it down. Good example is when a journalistic union (forget which group) at the BBC once threatened to refuse to broadcast the World Cup to apartheid South Africa – being politically motivated and not an industrial dispute there was an injunction from the Court of Appeal in favour of the BBC.

These days you also have certain interpretations of anti-discrimination legislation to take into account.