jurisdictional strike

Examples of jurisdictional strike in the following topics:

• National Labor Relations Act

  • The law holds that wildcat strikes are illegal, and that workers must formally request that the National Labor Relations Board end their association with their labor union if they feel that the union is not sufficiently supportive of them before they can legally go on strike.
  • In addition, employers campaigned over the years to outlaw a number of union practices such as closed shops; secondary boycotts; jurisdictional strikes; mass picketing; strikes in violation of contractual no-strike clauses; pension, health, and welfare plans sponsored by unions; and multi-employer bargaining.
  • The act was a means of demobilizing the labor movement by imposing limits on labor's ability to strike and by prohibiting radicals from their leadership.
  • The Taft–Hartley Act prohibited jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns.
  • The act authorized the President to intervene in strikes or potential strikes that create a national emergency, a reaction to the national coal miners' strikes called by the United Mine Workers of America in the 1940s.

• Labor Management Relations Act

  • The Taft–Hartley Act prohibited jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns.
  • Furthermore, the executive branch of the Federal government could obtain legal strikebreaking injunctions if an impending or current strike imperiled the national health or safety, a test that has been interpreted broadly by the courts.

• Labor-Management Relations Act

  • The Taft-Hartley Act makes it illegal for federal government employees or workers in corporations owned by the government to strike.
  • An example of the consequences can be seen in the outcome of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization's (PATCO) strike in 1981.
  • During the year after D-Day, more than five million American workers were involved in strikes, which lasted on average four times longer than those during the war.
  • The Taft–Hartley Act was seen as a means of demobilizing the labor movement by imposing limits on labor's ability to strike and by prohibiting radicals from their leadership.
  • The Taft–Hartley Act prohibited jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns.

• A Brief History of Organized Labor

  • It was a coalition of many national unions, and helped resolve jurisdictional disputes, created citywide coalitions that helped coordinate strikes, and after 1907 became a player in national politics, usually on the side of the Democrats.

• Strikes

  • Strike action, also called a labor strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
  • Strikes without formal union authorization are also known as wildcat strikes.
  • Such strikes may be a form of "partial strike" or "slowdown. "
  • Companies may also take out strike insurance prior to an anticipated strike, helping to offset the losses which the strike would cause.
  • How long will the strike last?

• Lockouts

  • Spontaneous strikes are sometimes called "wildcat strikes;" they were the key fighting point in May 1968 in France.
  • Companies may also take out strike insurance prior to an anticipated strike, to help offset the losses which the strike would cause.
  • How long will the strike last?
  • Are other strikers defecting from the strike?
  • In the United States, it is legal to fire striking public sector employees if the strike is illegal.

• Boycotts

  • Union boycotts are a form of industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in another, separate enterprise.
  • In most countries there are limits on the purpose for which people can go on strike, and in many English-speaking nations restrictions have been placed on which organisations trade unions may strike against.
  • In the U.S. and U.K., workers can typically strike against their direct employer only.
  • In continental Europe, secondary action is generally lawful and the right to strike is seen as a part of a broader political freedom.
  • Also known as secondary action, is industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in another, separate enterprise.

• Resolving Disagreements

  • Labor arbitration has been used as an alternative to strikes to resolve labor disputes for more than a century.
  • The Coal Strike of 1902 was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania.
  • The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to all major cities.
  • President Theodore Roosevelt became involved and set up a fact-finding commission that suspended the strike.
  • Grievance arbitration became even more popular during World War II, when most unions had adopted a no-strike pledge.

• Norris–La Guardia Act

  • It also established as United States law that employees should be free to form unions without employer interference, and also withdrew from the federal courts jurisdiction relative to the issuance of injunctions in nonviolent labor disputes.
  • No federal court can offer jurisdiction.
  • The three provisions include protecting worker's self-organization and liberty, removing jurisdiction from federal courts, and outlawing the "yellow dog" contract.

• Multinational Firms

  • Thus, MNCs are likely to adapt production processes in many of their operations to conform to the standards of the most rigorous jurisdiction in which they operate.
  • Therefore, once established in a jurisdiction, MNCs are potentially vulnerable to arbitrary government intervention like expropriation, sudden contract renegotiation and the arbitrary withdrawal or compulsory purchase of licenses.
  • Thus both the negotiating power of MNCs and the "race to the bottom" critique may be overstated while understating the benefits (besides tax revenue) of MNCs becoming established in a jurisdiction.