when my ballot paper arrives, as I'm sure it will - bearing in mind that I left the union months ago - like the texts, emails and post I keep receiving, how will you feel when I show it to my line manager to prove the illegality of the ballot?
My understanding was that the ballot was ruled illegal because union officials openly encouraged ex-members and those about to take VR to vote, knowing that they were ineligible.
The union has to make 'reasonable efforts' to keep the ballot to current members, I think it was suggested that a note with the ballot paper explaining the rules would have been sufficient.