Strike

Introduction

The labor is the ultimate weapon that the workers possess. The people play the main role that can make the profit for the business. As part of making the voice of the workers in the management, the use of strike is a powerful solution and action, but at the same time, reduces the work-paid because a day of participation makes a difference for an employee.

In organizing strikes, the participation is a vital role in delivering strike. All the strikes inhaled the democratic principle and the outcome of their actions is based on everybody’s decisions. The strikes can be done through noise barrage, hunger strike, or picketing which is the most popular for which the employees believe that they can bring home the success by doing so much damage for the business. The democratic theme that might revolve in the mind of the activists is to break the law that leaves their working condition in a haste and unfairness.

Strike Action Should not be Outlawed

A strike, in terms of labor relations, is an organized work stoppage carried out by a group of employees, for the purpose either of enforcing demands relating to employment conditions on their employer or of protesting unfair labor practices.

Workers may engage in a strike to obtain some improvements in the conditions of employment, such as higher wages or shorter working hours, to forestall an adverse change in the conditions of employment, such as lowering of wages, or to prevent the employer in carrying out actions viewed by the workers as detrimental to their interests, such as the employment of nonunion labor or the discharge of a worker without adequate justification (Dickey, 1993).

Strikes may also be conducted with the aim of compelling an employer to recognize a labor union as the legal collective bargaining representatives of the employees, and to conclude of a contract with the union. A strike is usually undertaken as a measure of last resort, adopted, for example, when the employer has rejected settlement of an existing dispute by methods provided for in a labor contract, such as negotiations or mediation. The political strike, on the other hand, maybe used as a means of compelling a government to accede to certain demands of the workers, or as revolutionary weapon designed to help secure the overthrow of a government (Lorimer, 1993).

Strike Tactics

The principal tactical aim of all strikes is to achieve the total suspension of work within the employer’s establishment. The most widely used secondary or subsidiary means of achieving this aim, invoked after the workers have quit work and let the business establishment, is the practice of picketing. Many labor unions maintain strikes funds, which are used for financial support of all the strikers pending the settlement of the dispute. In some cases, striking unions appeal to other unions and to the public for financial support (Barrow & Chapman, 2005).

The strikes are outlawed because of the brutal operations or organizing just to inform the employers or the political leaders about what they need, what they want, and what they understand that might be against their own right. Most of the strikes were conducted among the working class and can view as another way of abandonment.

Conclusions

The thing that a worker tends to believe is always in favor of his own security. The economic disposition can trigger the fear of an employee and therefore, he can find some opportunity or chance in administering his own personal policy. An employee might feel different treatment when he sees some faults coming from the management team or from other co-workers. Meanwhile, on the side of the people who tend to bring the strike on the street just to make their principle delivered directly on the leaders of the country.

A strike or organizing of the people is the right of every individual to make their choice and having their voice to be heard. They expect to make a difference, even in a small portion of change that might push the leader to make or improve their policies. It should not be outlawed for the reason that the people are only fighting for their right but they cannot find a good way in speaking it out.

References:

Barrow, B., & Chapman J., (2005). Strike Vote Divides Labor and Unions. The Daily Mail, 13 September, p. 7.

Dickey, N. (Ed.). (1993) Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia (Vol. 24 p. 35). United States: Funk & Wagnalls L.P.

Lorimer, L., (Ed.). (1993) Academic International Encyclopedia Yearbook (p. 300). Academic International Inc. Canada: Groller Limited.