Supporting other workers

Solidarity has always played an important role for trade unionists, but has been undermined by legislation introduced since 1980 and still in force that outlaws secondary action, including “secondary picketing”. Under section 224 of TULRCA, a person inducing or threatening another to break a contract of employment, which is not with the employer that is party to the dispute, is not protected by the immunities. If a union threatens to picket other places of work this will be unlawful. The only form of solidarity action permitted is where workers picketing at or near their place of work persuade other workers not employed there not to deliver goods or to enter the work premises.