LRD guides and handbook July 2021

Law at work 2021 - the trade union guide to employment law

Chapter 5

Industrial action return

[ch 5: page 179]

Since 1 March 2017, unions must include extra information on their Annual Returns to the CO (Form AR21), identifying:

• all industrial action (nature of the dispute, date(s) and type of action) by the union and the results of strike ballots in the preceding 12 months; and

• all payments by the trade union for political purposes, and any other payment from its political fund if not made for a political purpose.