Trade Unions: Industrial Disputes

(asked on 11th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he plans to take to negotiate with trade unions who have balloted for industrial action.


Answered by
Kevin Hollinrake Portrait
Kevin Hollinrake
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 20th January 2023

It is up to unions to negotiate with employers, we encourage them to do so. Strikes should always be a last resort. In relation to disputes in the public sector, the Government has reached out to the relevant trade unions to invite them to discuss how to end disputes and agree fair and affordable pay settlements for 2023 to 2024.

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