action short of strike

A spokesman for the union said that a range of action short of strike would begin on 12 May.

The ballot will ask staff if they are prepared to take action short of strike action, working to contract and contracted hours.

Coupled with the 90% yes vote by members for industrial action short of strike, the message can't be much stronger to Post Office management.

But he warned they were preparing for "action short of strike and strike action".

Unite said 57.5% of members on a turnout of 79.5% voted for action short of strike in the re-ballot.

Suckling: voted against strike action (85%) and action short of strike (76%).

However, only 20% said they would be willing to strike, with the majority backing a campaign of action short of striking such as a work-to-rule protest.

The unions are planning a series of rallies and an escalation of their industrial action short of strike action.

Over 90 per cent of workers also voted for action short of strikes, with a continuous work-to-rule and overtime ban in place since Monday 30th September.

But critics have pointed out that a minority of union members voted last year in the ballots on "strike action and action short of strike action."

"Union members are not of the opinion they should be taking strike action, but they are of the opinion they should be taking action short of strike action."

Every day, resistance across the profession grows, as demonstrated by the determination with which thousands of teachers are following the NASUWT/NUT industrial action short of strike action.

The proposals backed by the conference will allow the union's leadership to carry out a flexible campaign in the autumn, with actions short of striking as well as paving the way for a ballot for strikes.

For the past six months, the NUT has been engaged in action short of striking in conjunction with fellow teaching union the NASUWT in protest over workloads, working hours, pay and pensions.

INDUSTRIAL ACTION You will have received separately, circulars from national level giving the list of options available for branches to encourage members to take action short of strike action.

This means we will have to ask you for your firm support in two industrial action ballots - one for action short of strike action and one to enable members to take part in Flexi protests and one day strikes.

It is time for them to sit down with the unions and negotiate. " The rallies - listed below - are the first steps in a campaign of action short of strike action (overtime bans, working to rule, withholding exam results etc).

Then, by the middle of next month, the CWU communications union will announce what has long been seen as inevitable - the vote for both strikes and industrial action short of striking (a boycott of competitors" mail) at Royal Mail.

The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), which called out 9,000 of its members, issued a statement saying: “There is a mandate for strike action and action short of strike action.”

In November 2015, the BMA balloted over 37,700 of their members in response to Hunt's contract proposals; 76% of eligible doctors voted with 99.6% of doctors voting for action short of strike and 98% voting for all out strike.

More than 220,000 teachers and school leaders took part in the union's first national ballot for more than a decade, with 82 per cent voting in favour of strike action and 91 per cent voting in favour of action short of strikes.

The NUT's general secretary Christine Blower said the joint action was a "measured response to the unacceptable attacks on teachers" and the action short of strike being taken was "giving back professional freedom whereby teachers can focus on teaching and learning rather than accountability tasks".

''Should the Government refuse to take the current opportunity to negotiate sensible arrangements which protect teachers and defend education, then it is our intention to move to escalate industrial action, including jointly coordinated strike action and action short of strike action in the autumn,'' said a joint statement.

The combined weight of these issues has built up to a comprehensive and fundamental collapse in industrial relations that the company have done nothing to address leaving RMT with no option but to ballot for both strike action and action short of strike.