Member

I have also sought to lengthen the period for making a complaint about unfair practice in connection with the ballot from one to 20 working days—I know the Government have shifted that from one to five, but that is as many unions and the TUC have set out—and to remove the three-year barrier to a union that has lost an application for recognition, replacing three years with three months. It is unjust, particularly given the anti-union measures deployed, that the GMB cannot quickly pursue a recognition process at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse, where the union lost, as we previously heard, by just 29 votes. It is unjust that they should be pushed out for such a long period, and I hope the Government will remain alive to the need to update that.