This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Amend current legislation to require the majority of union members to support industrial action
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Under current legislation unions only require the support of the majority of their membership who actually vote in a ballot, rather than the support of the majority of their total membership before they can lawfully announce industrial action. In practice this can result in strikes being called on a very low turnout, sometimes with less than 20% of the total membership voting in favour of strike action. Therefore I propose that current legislation should be altered to require over 50% of the total membership of a union to vote in favour of industrial action before those members can be legally called out on strike.
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