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I don't think this is correct - we have a lot of clever people here who are interested in the result, but I can't recall anyone printing it here - which suggests it wasn't widely distributed - if at all.
Can anyone tell me how many people voted for and against the strike?
I can't recall anyone posting it here or even the mammoth PPRUNE threads that I've been reading.
Even if it had, didn't Mr Woodley admit in one of the TV interviews that the number of spoilt ballot papers (11 or 12 I forget which) was not included in the results that were published via notice board/email/text message.
The law is crystal clear. UNITE must have had names and addresses to send out the ballot papers. All it required for compliance was to send the results to the same list, which is really rather simple.
What I find staggering is that the largest union in the UK can get the ballot process for industrial action wrong twice.
What UNITE fails to appreciate is that on any technicality, it will surely always lose on the 'balance of convenience'. Any court will always rule that imposition (having already had a ruling saying it is legal and proportionate action) compared to any strike will always fail that test.