Originally Posted by Chris

Hang on, hang on ... I think it's about time we tempered all this feverish commentary with a little learned opinion. Here's a few wide words from an industrial relations lawyer, offered to the BBC before the outcome of the legal challenge was announced:



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8414306.stm

As is often the way in these sorts of cases, there's the critical word reasonable. What you're suggesting as the future nightmare scenario simply is not reasonable. No judge is going to halt a strike just because an employer can find a small handful of people who shouldn't have been balloted. For BA to have won this, there must have been a substantial number of people who were not entitled to vote, and there must have been some good evidence that Unite didn't bother to take reasonable steps to avoid balloting them.

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What's so democratic about a trade union that's prepared to flout the law in order to get its way? The laws on how strikes are called are there to prevent unions abusing their power and were put there by a democratically-elected parliament.