UK rapped over union law

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  Wilson, Palmer and others v United Kingdom [2002] IRLR 568 ECHR (3 other reports)

  • No surrender

    Date:

    1 October 2002

    A 13-year battle over the right to union representation is almost certain to change UK employment law. Phil Boucher reports.

  • Time to change law on union members rights

    Date:

    10 September 2002

    Legislation designed to protect trade union members from being victimised by their employers is flawed and must be changed.

  • Trade Unions: Financial incentives violated trade union members' human rights

    Date:

    1 August 2002

    In Wilson and others v the United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights holds that, whereas the absence under UK domestic law of compulsory collective bargaining did not, in itself, give rise to a violation of article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, preventing employees from exercising their right to have their trade union protect their interests rendered that right illusory.