The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
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YESTERDAY, the National Education Union became the largest union to win a national ballot under the restrictive thresholds imposed by the 2016 Trade Union Act.
With 90 per cent of teachers in England voting for action on a 53 per cent turnout — more than 121,000 votes — this is the single largest vote for strike action since the legislation was introduced.
In some ways more significant is the fact that this ballot was organised across 24,000 individual workplaces, with an average of 13 members per workplace.
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