0 money that is paid to people involved in a strike by their union from an amount of money saved specially for this purpose --
1 money paid by a trade union to its members when they are on strike and not being paid by their company: --
All but £4 of any tax refund and strike pay is taken into account in deciding a family's entitlement to supplementary benefit.
These deductions relate not to strike pay but to earnings for safety work done at the plant.
They have "deemed" that the miners have been getting strike pay when in fact they have not.
These men, because they have not been called out on strike by their trade unions, were obviously not entitled to strike pay.
I suppose that giving strike pay to a man who is on strike would clearly be to support the strike.
They will never be able to build up a strike fund that will enable them to give their members strike pay.
My constituents support the law which assumes that when supplementary benefit is provided, an amount of strike pay has been paid.
It clearly covers informal support by "nod and wink" techniques as well as positive acts like authorising strike pay.
