| Comment | Also important to note that in 2017 the Tories implemented the Trade Union Act, which included various measures to make balloting for strike action as difficult as possible, including enforcing paper postal balloting (which, notably, they don't require for their own leadership contest) and increasing turnout thresholds
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/trade-union-act-measures-come-into-force-to-protect-people-from-undemocratic-industrial-action
This means that the bar for legal strike action by a union is set very high, and not something that can ever be taken lightly - if a union wants to proceed with strike action, it has to achieve a supermajority via archaic means, so for a labour force to reach that bar means they have definite grievance.
It's portrayed in the media that unions call for strikes willy-nilly but this is a long way from the case, it's really hard to get legal strike action going, so you know it matters when they reach that stage because all other avenues have been exhausted |
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