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- Title
The Use of Injunctions in Industrial Disputes.
- Authors
Evans, Stephen
- Abstract
The article examines the use of injunctions in industrial disputes between September 1980 and September 1984 in Great Britain. A lists of thirty-four cases is provided in the article. Seventeen relate to picketing, twelve of which concerned picketing other than at the pickets' own place of work. In view of the conventional wisdom that most managements would not use the law against their own employees it is interesting to note that in all but three of those seventeen cases the plaintiff was the pickets' employer or ex-employer and picketing was targeted against one or more of the plaintiffs own establishments. It is shown in the article that there was no great rush to the courts by employers, most of whom continue to rely on established relations with union officials to resolve disputes. But more, than perhaps is commonly supposed, have been ready to use the civil law remedies. Injunctions were more likely to be used when managements could clearly see that those taking the unlawful action lacked cohesion and were isolated from other would-be supporters, and carried little influence with union officials.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; LABOR injunctions; LABOR disputes; INDUSTRIAL relations; LABOR laws; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law)
- Publication
British Journal of Industrial Relations, 1985, Vol 23, Issue 1, p133
- ISSN
0007-1080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8543.1985.tb00185.x