Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials responded to the threat by accusing the unions of stalling negotiations and warning that a secondary strike by other unions could halt even limited service, which the agency hopes to provide by staffing 100 buses with supervisor drivers.
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During a special meeting in Johannesburg, the Congress of South African Trade Unions passed a resolution that 14 affiliates not involved in the dispute " begin the process of engaging in secondary strike action and other forms of solidarity action ."
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The Government have argued that the pressing social need for maintaining the statutory ban on secondary strikes is to shield the domestic economy from the disruptive effects of such industrial action, which, if permitted, would pose a risk to the country s economic recovery.
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The Phantom entered service with both the Fleet Air Arm and the RAF in 1969 . In the Royal Navy it had a secondary strike role in addition to its primary use for fleet air defence, while in the RAF it was soon replaced in the strike role by other aircraft designed specifically for strike and close air support.
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This being so, the Court considers that the negative assessments made by the relevant monitoring bodies of the ILO and European Social Charter are not of such persuasive weight for determining whether the operation of the statutory ban on secondary strikes in circumstances such as those complained of in the present case remained within the range of permissible options open to the national authorities under Article 11 of the Convention.
