UNISON Rule Book 2002

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1.  Only the National Executive Council or the General Secretary on behalf of the National Executive Council shall have the power to authorise strike or other industrial action and payment of strike benefit.

2.  The National Executive Council may appoint a sub–committee, officer or member to act on its behalf in issuing any particular instructions to take industrial action.

3.  No such instruction shall be issued unless the members who are the subject of that instruction have first had the opportunity to vote upon the proposal to take industrial action in a ballot.

4.  The National Executive Council shall draw up a Code of Conduct applicable either generally to all industrial disputes or in relation to any particular dispute. All members shall observe the Code during the disputes.

5.  Dispute benefit and other costs and expenses arising from and connected with the dispute will be paid under regulations drawn up by the National Executive Council from a fund specifically maintained for these purposes.