Is the hon. Gentleman aware that many trade unions have thresholds in their rule books to ensure that a certain percentage of members must vote? When I was a full-time official, my union, the GMB, had a threshold. It is therefore not the case that the threshold is uniform across all unions or businesses.
Trade Union Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Beamish
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 27 April 2016.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Trade Union Bill.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
608 c1485
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Librarians' tools
Timestamp
2017-02-21 09:39:38 +0000
URI
http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-04-27/16042764000153
In Indexing
http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-04-27/16042764000153
In Solr
https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-04-27/16042764000153