Mark McAllister is Director of Employment Relations Services with the LRA and part-time lecturer in Law. He specialises in employment law, dispute prevention and strategic collaborative working in industrial and employment relations. Mark is the former Northern Ireland Convenor of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and the Chair of the NI ICSA Governance Institute. He is an accredited mediator, a member of the Employment Lawyers’ Group and the Industrial Law Society and is a regular speaker on the employment law circuit and contributor to employment law publications.
In this months Employment @11 webianr we were delighted to welcome Mark McAllister of the Labour Relations Agency to discuss strikes, rising costs, and union-busting.
Mark: Yeah, you would be forgiven to think you were transported back into the 1970s. There is an incredible amount of industrial action going on throughout the UK at the minute, and especially in Northern Ireland. In my 23 years or so working with the Labour Relations Agency, I've never seen it as busy. It really does harken back the days of the '70s and '80s.
And there've been lots of legal developments since that in regard to the law and trade unions. And we're in position now where the law in Northern Ireland does
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