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TORY plans to impose restrictive thresholds on strike ballots would violate international law, a leading labour lawyer said yesterday.
Daniel Blackburn, director of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights, believes the Tory manifesto pledge would break standards on workers’ rights set by the United Nations.
The legal expert said it would put Britain’s strike laws on a par with those of Nigeria and Belarus, among the world’s worst countries for workers.
The International Court of Justice has delivered its clearest ruling yet that the right to strike is protected under international law, write Professor TONIA NOVITZ, Professor KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC
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
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered