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The Combinations of Workmen Act 1825 (6 Geo. 4.c. 129) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, which prohibited trade unions from attempting to collectively bargain for better terms and conditions at work, with the exception of increased wages and better working hours, and suppressed the right to strike.
c. 81) titled "An Act to prevent Unlawful Combinations of Workmen", prohibited trade unions and collective bargaining by British workers. The act received royal assent on 12 July 1799. An additional act, the Combination Act 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 106), was passed the following year.
The principle that the common law enforced a union's own rules, and that unions were free to arrange their affairs, is reflected in the ILO Freedom of Association Convention and in Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, subject to the requirement that regulations "necessary in a democratic society" may be imposed.
Section 2 of the Act introduced a new requirement of 50% of union members to vote in a ballot for strike action. It amended TULRCA 1992 section 226(2). [3]Section 3 requires that workers in important services (health, school education, fire, transport, nuclear decommissioning and border security) must gain at least 40% support of those entitled to vote in a workplace for a strike to be legal.
The principles form the Trades Union Congress (TUC) code of practice that unions in England and Wales must adhere to as a condition of continued affiliation. [ 1 ] First adopted in 1939 at the TUC's 1939 Congress meeting in Bridlington , the principles initially required that unions did not attempt to "poach" each other's members, in the ...
Women and trade unions: an outline history of women in the British trade union movement (E. Benn, 1977). Lovell, John. British Trade Unions 1875–1933 (Macmillan Education UK 1977) 74 Pages; Minkin, Lewis. "The British Labour Party and the Trade Unions: Crisis and Compact" ILR 28#1 (1974) pp. 7–37. online; Minkin, Lewis.
The Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 (c. 52) (TULRA) was a UK Act of Parliament (now repealed) on industrial relations.. The Act contains rules on the functioning and legal status of trade unions, the presumption that a collective agreement is not binding, and immunity of unions who take strike action in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute.
Collective action in the United Kingdom including the right to strike in UK labour law is the main support for collective bargaining. Although the right to strike (or "industrial action" traditionally) has attained the status, since 1906, of a fundamental human right, protected in domestic case law, statute, the European Convention on Human Rights and international law, the rules in statute ...