Strike action A strike is a collective withdrawal of labour by employees. Under such action‚ employees refuse to perform all work‚ not just selected duties. Strikes are usually‚ but not always‚ organised by a union. The purpose of a strike is to pressure an employer (or other third party) into complying with particular demands or refraining from doing something. Under the federal Fair Work Act 2009 strike action may be ’protected action’ if undertaken during a bargaining period for an enterprise
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A strike is a form of protest whereby a group of employees withhold labour in order to pressure employers into granting a particular demand. (Cambridge Dictionairies) Causes and effects of strikes in South Africa: Causes - Lack of transformation‚ mutual respect‚ trust‚ and socio-economic equity (SABC‚ 2014). - Dissatisfaction with pay or working and living conditions. Effects - Companies: financial losses‚ reduced productivity‚ profitability and market share‚ and delayed service delivery. Employees:
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Strike [Sec. 2 (q)]: Strike means "a cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any industry acting in combination or a concerted refusal under a common understanding of any number of persons who are or have been so employed‚ to continue to work or to accept employment". Mere stoppage of work does not come within the meaning of strike unless it can be shown that such stoppage of work was a concerted action for the enforcement of an industrial demand. Procedure of Strikes According to Sec
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employees in an effort to obtain for the employer more desirable terms. Lockouts can have three purposes: 1. Designed to frustrate bargaining efforts 2. An economic countermove to union’s right to strike 3. To minimize economic or operational losses threatened by an imminent strike The third type of lockout is legally justified and provides the employer a right to protect the economic integrity of his enterprise. The Supreme Court too accepts “special circumstances” which may force
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Devante Williams pd 7 Labor Strike The labor strike in which I chose was the textile workers strike. The textile strike happen in 1934 which then was in U.S. history the largest labor strike. The strike involved half of million strikers. Textile workers came from New England‚ the Mid-Atlantic states‚ and the U.S. Southern states. The strike present o for twenty-two days. They strike twenty-two days about issues were deplorable working conditions‚ low wages‚ and lack of union recognition. However
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The 1997 Teamster strike against UPS was not simply a victory‚ but a smashing victory for the US working class and therefore offers many valuable lessons for today’s labor militants‚ both with respect to the strategic orientation and the day-to-day tactics. UPS is a “Fortune 500” company‚ meaning it is one of the most profitable in the nation‚ boasting of a $1.15 billion profit margin prior to the strike. In 1992‚ the workforce was evenly divided between full-time and part-time workers‚ but by 1996
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| | |The Right to Strike | |Mini Case 3 | Seven of the employer’s 11 concrete truck drivers
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Is the strike no longer necessary? Throughout the years conflict has occurred between managers and workers resulting in industrial action taken either individually or as a collective form. The most favoured form of industrial action is the strike where employees demonstrate the importance of the issue concerned by stopping work and leaving the workplace. Strikes occur for a number of reasons one being pay. Strike patterns have changed over the years showing a decline in numbers that are due to
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History between 1877 and 1920 was The Great Strike of 1877. The Great Strike of 1877 was the most important event between 1877 and 1920 because it began the Great Strike‚ it was the most violent labor-management confrontation to that point in American history and the amount of people who died‚ went to jail or went on strike was insurmountable. The Great Strike of 1877 was the most important event in U.S history because it was the beginning of an era of strikes. On September 18‚ 1873‚ the bank panic
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The great railroad strike of 1877 started on July 14 in Martinsburg‚ West Virginia‚ in response to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad cutting wages of workers for the third time in a year. This strike had a big impact because the striking workers wouldn’t allow trains‚ mainly freight trains to roll. They had one term to make this dilemma get dropped; drop the third wage cut. The events that lead up to the strike were simple‚ they had cut the pay outs three times‚ so no one’s gonna be happy. Let’s
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