>Was the staff petition or protest about TU rights? Might be shifting onto more sketchy ground if that was the case.
Not with how the law currently works it doesn't. You are free to discuss your conditions and ballot your co-workers for TU representation but you aren't not allowed to protest and ompact the operations of the business to solicit signatures from customers. You just aren't. The employees themselves do not deny this is what happened and people in this thread were in the bar when it happened. I assume they knew full well they would be fired. The staff may feel a different way about it but how they feel doesn't have any real impact on the law.
I support these folks and wish them well (fortunately hospitality jobs are easy to come by just now). I wish they had balloted their co-workers to join Unite rather than wildcat strike with IWW though. That approach with IWW is tried often and it never works because it is never compliant with existing organising law. |