BA pilot holiday pay row lands in court – BBC News
“British Airways is due in court to fight a union’s attempt to change its policy on holiday pay for pilots.”
BBC News, 24th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: trade unions
BA cabin crew lose high court battle to prevent airline cuts – The Guardian
“British Airways cabin crew today lost their high court bid for a permanent injunction preventing the airline from imposing cost-cutting proposals.”
The Guardian, 19th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Alemo-Herron and Others v Parkwood Leisure Ltd – Times Law Reports
Alemo-Herron and Others v Parkwood Leisure Ltd
Court of Appeal
“After a competitive transfer to the private sector of local authority services, and thence to further private-sector employment, the second private employers were not bound by a collective pay settlement agreed between the local authority and trade unions.”
The Times, 15th February 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
British Airways faces renewed legal action – BBC News
“The union Unite is due to go to the High Court to try to get the changes brought in by British Airways to cabin crew last year overturned.”
BBC News, 2nd February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Royal Mail to face legal action – BBC News
“The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is going to the High Court on Friday to seek an injunction preventing Royal Mail from using 30,000 agency workers.”
BBC News, 3rd November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
BA facing union legal challenge – BBC News
“Unite the union is to take legal action to try to stop British Airways’ plans to impose new pay and conditions on 14,000 cabin crew.”
BBC News, 30th October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Metrobus Ltd v Unite the Union – WLR Daily
Metrobus Ltd v Unite the Union [2009] EWCA Civ 829; [2009] WLR (D) 279
“Where an employer sought an injunction to restrain a strike, a union’s failure to comply with its obligation under s 231A of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 to inform the employer as soon as reasonably practicable of the result of the ballot could justify the grant of an injunction restraining the strike. S 231A, and also ss 226 and 234A, were not disproportionate restrictions on the rights of association conferred by art 11 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The obligations under those sections could not be regarded as onerous so that they could be said to constitute a serious impediment on a union’s ability to call a strike.”
WLR Daily, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Warning for firms that set up trade union blacklist – The Guardian
“Major companies which set up and funded a secret blacklist to deny work to thousands of trade unionists will escape prosecution, it emerged today. A judge fined a private investigator who operated the covert blacklist but said he was not the only person responsible but was financed by big ‘high street’ companies. Major firms in the construction industry will be officially warned that they will be prosecuted if they set up a new blacklist.”
The Guardian, 17th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Gangmaster laws to be extended to cut deaths in construction industry – The Guardian
“Directors will be legally forced to ensure good health and safety management and gangmaster licensing will be extended to the construction industry as the centrepiece of a hard-hitting government inquiry into the high number of fatalities on Britain’s building sites published today.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Blacklisting of union members by companies to be outlawed – The Guardian
“The government is to outlaw the use by companies of covert blacklists that have prevented trade unionists from getting work. Ministers have been forced to act after a watchdog exposed widespread blacklisting in the construction industry this year.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Legal dispute over Sats boycott – BBC News
“A proposed boycott of Sats tests by two of England’s main education unions would be unlawful, the government says.”
BBC News, 10th April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
£6m of sick miners’ awards went to Arthur Scargill’s union – The Times
“Arthur Scargill’s trade union was paid more than £6 million by a firm of solicitors that deducted the money from compensation awarded to sick miners for industrial disease, a tribunal was told.”
The Times, 7th January 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Solicitors accused over ‘dubious deals’ with union official that cost sick miners thousands – The Times
“Britain’s highest-earning solicitor acted dishonestly and with ‘conscious impropriety’ in dealings with a mining union that led to his firm handling thousands of industrial disease compensation claims, a tribunal heard yesterday.”
The Times, 18th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Allen and Others v GMB – Times Law Reports
Court of Appeal
“A trade union was not justified in indirectly discriminating against a number of female members in resolving gender-based pay inequalities among local authority employees.”
The Times, 1st September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Union takes outsourcing case to Employment Tribunal – OUT-LAW.com
“A £400 million outsourcing deal between local authorities and IBM was unfair because the full details of the transfer of staff to a private company were not revealed, workers’ union Unison has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th August 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
Equal pay: Unions face compensation claims of up to £100m – The Guardian
“Unions are facing the threat of a compensation bill for as much as £100m in the wake of an appeal court ruling that they broke the law by discriminating against women indirectly in the way they settled equal pay claims in local government.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Allen and others v GMB – WLR Daily
Allen and others v GMB [2008] EWCA Civ 810; [2008] WLR (D) 243
“The striking of a deal by a trade union with a local authority as to terms and conditions of employment pursuant to a national collective agreement establishing a ‘single status’ common pay and grading structure for all local authorities, which deal attempted to achieve compensation for some union members for past pay inequality as well as ongoing pay and employment protection for all members, was indirectly discriminatory since it constituted the application of a provision, criterion or practice which applied equally to men but was to the detriment of a considerably larger proportion of women than of men and since the means adopted by the union to persuade members to accept the deal, including mis-selling and manipulation, were not proportionate to the union’s legitimate aim of achieving single status with the minimum of losers.”
WLR Daily, 17th July 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Unions discriminated against female workers, court rules – The Times
“One of the country’s largest trade unions discriminated against female members while negotiating a pay deal with their employer, the Court of Appeal said today in a ruling that could cost it and other unions millions of pounds.”
The Times, 16th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Legal ruling safeguards UK jobs – BBC News
“Following a landmark legal ruling this week, employers will now need to consult trade unions before they make a decision to close a workplace in the UK.”
BBC News, 26th October 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
