United States Labor Relations Board Cowardly Punts its Duties
Earlier this month, the United States witnessed a major setback for freedom of association. The National Labor Relations Board (the Board)– the U.S. agency charged with “encouraging the practice and...
Politics and Legality: The UK’s Trade Union Bill 2015
Despite having some of the most onerous legal restrictions on the right to strike in the industrialised West, Business Secretary Sajid Javid MP’s proposed Trade Union Bill seeks to place...
Constitutional Protection for the Right to Strike in Canada
In a momentous decision, released on 30 January 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the right to strike is protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom’s...
RMT v United Kingdom: Sympathy Strikes and the European Court of Human Rights
In RMT v United Kingdom the European Court of Human Rights held that the ban on secondary action in the United Kingdom was a justified interference with the right to...
The CJEU's Ruling in AMS and the Horizontal Effect of the Charter
In its judgment in AMS (15 January 2014), the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on whether the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the...
Redfearn v United Kingdom and an Integrated Approach to Labour Rights
Following on from Alan Bogg’s analysis of Redfearn v United Kingdom, this post by Anjoli Maheswaran Foster focuses on a different aspect of the case- the ‘integrated approach’ to social...
Redfearn v United Kingdom: Hard Case Makes Good Law- Part 2
In Redfearn v United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held that the UK was under a positive obligation to enact legislation to protect employees from dismissal on...
Redfearn v United Kingdom: Hard Case Makes Good Law-Part 1
On 6 November 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down judgment in Redfearn v United Kingdom. In a two-part post, Alan Bogg argues that the ECtHR reached...
