The TUC has written to Business Secretary Vince Cable urging him to modernise the rules that govern strike ballots and bring union voting methods into the 21st century. Keen to explore ways that industrial democracy could be enhanced, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady has called on the BIS to change the rules so that union members might use their work computers, home laptops, tablets or smartphones to vote in future strike ballots, rather than having to follow the 1992 Trade Union and Labour Relations Act, whereby unions still have to ask their members whether they want to take action by sending a letter to their home addresses. The TUC has also launched an online petition to allow members to vote for secure online balloting. 

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