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Originally Posted by martyh
well i've just checked my big book of strike rules and it states that any action voted on must commence within 4 weeks of the ballot or the ballot is invalid
it also states that the employer must be notified of how many people and who they are and when they will be implementing any action before the ballot takes place
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This is what makes the High court decision so undemocratic. There is a fair bit of time passes between informing the employer of the ballot process, the ballot, the result and then the industrial action.
In that time there will always be some people who receives a ballot paper who are not entitled to vote. The decision yesterday was about a few hundred people who no matter how the voted wouldn't have affected the overall outcome.
In the future, if there is a much closer ballot, does the employer only have to find one or two people who shouldn't have voted to run to the High Court to force the union to start the process again. Bad precedent
