Junior doctors strike Calls for fresh industrial action

A strike must be limited to the simple act of suspension of work.

A strike must be limited to the simple act of suspension of work.

A strike is a temporary cessation of work brought about by a coalition of workers.

(h) To the right to strike

Strikes shall be considered illegal only when the majority of strikers engage in acts of violence against persons or property or, in the event of war, when the workers belong to establishments or services of the government.

Some of the most important guarantees in the exercise of the right to strike are voluntary participation in strikes prohibition of lockouts presumption of the legality of strikes until they are proven otherwise by a court of law administrative penal responsibility for anyone violating the provisions of the right to strike recognizing the period of participation in a legal strike as time of service.

A strike?

Strike

The right to strike is, however, implied in the law, as it is laid down in the Danish Industrial Tribunal Act (Lov om Arbejdsretten) that the Industrial Tribunal shall decide matters regarding the lawfulness of the use of collective action, including strikes.

Mr. Yang instigated workers of two companies to go on illegal strikes on four occasions in June and July 1994.

The LFT also specifies the conditions to be met by the use of the right to strike

There is a strike.

A strike?

Right.

Article 3 of the Law On Strikes provides that employees have the right to strike in order to protect their economic or professional interests, and that the right to strike shall be used as an ultimate measure if no agreement and conciliation have been reached in a labour dispute during pre strike negotiations.

The application of the strike, indicating the place and the time of the strike, the reasons of the strike, the number of strikers and their demands, shall be submitted to the respective employer, the State Labour Inspection and the Latvian Trilateral Advisory Council of Employers, the State and Trade unions at least 10 days before the beginning of the strike.

The said Law regulates in detail the pre strike negotiations, as well as the procedure for announcing a strike and the supervision over the progress of a strike, as well as cases and the procedure when a strike may be declared illegal.

What strike?

Strikes shall not be allowed in the following cases

93. The exercise of the right to strike shall be allowed in all cases with the exception of those specifically prescribed by law.

Strike limitations exist in the sense of carrying out minimum activities in certain work processes, and obligations in respect to proper announcements of a strike to employers.

This here's a strike.

What else?

Article 4 of the Law emphasizes that participation in a strike is voluntary and that an employee must not be forced to participate in a strike or must not be prevented from participating in a strike.

There is no restriction on public servants exercising the right to strike.

In Peru, the constitution prohibited judges from forming trade unions and going on strike.

Likewise a strike shall be declared illegal if it refers to issues that have been negotiated and agreed upon by parties to the dispute already during the pre strike negotiations.

You bunch of scabs!

A strike at the arms factory.

It's about those unions who put down their tools and demanded freedom.

On the subject of the continuation of work after the outbreak of the strike the LFT contains the following provisions

The State party is also encouraged to review section 381 of the Labour Code, that provides for the possibility of the replacement of striking workers, and section 384 that gives too broad a definition of essential services in which strikes may be prohibited.

The Law On Strikes provides that under the procedure prescribed by the present Law the proposal of a strike, the application and participation in a strike shall not be considered as a violation of the employment agreement and Labour Law and, thus cannot serve as the grounds for the dismissal of employees and that employees participating in a strike in accordance with the Law shall not be subjected to disciplinary penalty for it.

The right to strike is regulated by the 1998 Law on Strikes, (Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina, No. 10 89), and in 2001 the General Council of Alliance of Unions set the union rules on strikes.

Why are they striking?

Blame the strike !

There's naught to strike about yet.

It's about a common strike.

The Committee notes with concern that section 381 of the Labour Code provides for the possibility of the replacement of striking workers.

Messrs. Kwon and Yang violated this article by instigating railway workers, who were public servants, to go on illegal strikes in June 1994.

(d) Limitations on the right to strike

The thermometer's on strike.

You'd think informers were on strike.

There are often strikes demanding the resignation of administrative personnel in factories and companies (directors, managers, etc.).