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Collective bargaining Court of Appeal disallows BPA provision requiring mediation before strike action

  • Bell Gully
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 7 2011

Last week, the Court of Appeal held that union members in collective bargaining could strike without first attempting to settle new terms in mediation, notwithstanding a provision of the parties' bargaining process agreement (BPA) requiring mediation before industrial action (NZ Professional Firefighters Union v NZ Fire Service Commission