Sentence examples for ballot for action from inspiring English sources

Thousands of midwives and maternity support staff are being consulted on whether they want a formal ballot for action.

Our members are angry at the way they are being treated and we are left with little choice but to ballot for action.

But at least 500,000 NHS staff will be balloted after Unite, which represents another 100,000 workers, confirmed that it too will hold a ballot for action including a strike.

"RMT members have rightly said that they will not put up with this blatant unfairness and have asked us to organise a ballot for action.

They would also end a ban on using agency staff to cover for striking workers, impose a three-month time limit after a ballot for action to take place and curbs on picketing.

"We have tried to get LU to see sense, but they have continued to put cash and job cuts ahead of passenger safety and we now have no choice but to ballot for action to put a stop to these dangerous proposals being imposed without agreement".

"The industrial relations situation on the Tube has sunk to an almost unprecedented low with all four unions united and balloting for action over pay and working arrangements due to be ushered in under the guise of the mayor's "night Tube" vanity project in just 10 weeks' time.

She said school staff will be balloted for action shortly.

In December 2009, a ballot for strike action over Christmas received a high level of support, action was blocked by a court injunction that deemed the ballot illegal.

The direct action comes after the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) opened a ballot for industrial action at the title over the compulsory redundancies.

But Aslef's chief executive dismissed any discussion of strike action on the day and said there had been no ballot for industrial action.