User:Brian McNeil/BT-CWU dispute round 2

Early this week, the UK's Communication Workers' Union (CWU) announced they would not be moving to strike action in their dispute with British Telecom (BT). This in response to letters received from BT indicating any call for a strike would be challenged through the courts.

At-issue is legal requirements that the CWU must comply with, should they formally announce an intent to go on strike. Channel 4 News highlights the specific aspect of UK trade-union legislation causing problems; namely, the union must inform BT of the workplace of all employees who would be going on strike. This is complicated by many of the union's members who work for BT being mobile, such as phone or broadband engineers working for BT OpenReach.