More tribunals than ever before..

Recent statistics published by the Tribunal Service office show an increase of 56% in claims during the year up to 31 March 2010. The number of claims in 2008/09 was 151,000, compared with 236,100 claims in 2009-10. The stats show a massive rise in the number of claims made under breach of contract and redundancy pay claims this perhaps reflects the fact that people are fighting back because of the pressures on jobs from the recession. At the same time religion and belief claims have reached 1,000 in the past year. There will be more pressure on trades unions to offer quality representation to those who are members, at the same time there should (in theory) be a higher demand to join an established trade union so I just hope that we are ready to be taking people on and give them real support.