Question

What is Strike ? Discuss various types of strikes.

Answer 1

Strike

Definition: In business terms, a strike can be understood as a curtailment of work, due to the collective refusal of workers to work, which occurs as a response to employee grievances. It involves, dropping out of work by any number of workers, employed in a particular industry, with an aim of creating pressure on the employers, to accept their demands relating to pay scale, working conditions, trade practices and so forth.

A strike is a situation in which the workers act in concert for stopping or denying to resume work. The relationship between the employer and employee continue to exist though in a state of hostile suspension.

Types of Strike

Hunger Strike: Strike in which the employees go on fasting, near the workplace or at the residence of the employer, to force him/her redress their grievances is called hunger strike.

Economic Strike: Economic Strike is the cessation of work by the labors with an aim of imposing their economic demands like wages and bonus.

In such strike, the workers raise their voices to increase their pay, improve working conditions, facilitate them with allowances, perquisites, and add-on benefits.

Stay-in Strike: A type of strike, in which the employees come to the office, as usual, take their seats but do not work and also deny to leave the office premises, when asked to do so.

When such an act is performed in combination, it amounts to stay-in strike. Alternately called as sit-down, pen-down or tool-down strike.

Go-slow Strike: Otherwise called as a slow-down strike, is one in which the workers do not stop working, but slow down the entire process by deliberately delaying the production, which results in the reduction of output.

This amounts to a serious case of misconduct, whereby the workmen pretend to be engaged in the work and entitled to full wages. It is more harmful than the complete cessation of work by employees, as the resources get wasted, due to delayed working of employees.

Sympathetic Strike: A type of strike in which the workers of one department, unit, division, or industry, go on strike, in support of the workers of another department, unit, division, or industry, who are already on strike.

This may be an unjustified seizure of rights of the employer, who is not even involved in the conflict.

Answer 2

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Mass refusal by workers or employees to perform work due to certain grievances or because of demands not met.

In most democratic countries the right to strike is legal.

Here are types of Strike

• Hunger strike.
• Economic strike.
• Stay-in strike
• Go slow strike.
• Sympathetic Strike.

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