Types of strike action (Right to strike)


Description:(CFA: Digest of Decisions 2006)
Subject classification: Freedom of Association
Document:1003
Subject: Freedom of Association, Collective Bargaining, and Industrial Relations
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Types of strike action

545. Regarding various types of strike action denied to workers (wild-cat strikes, tools-down, go-slow, working to rule and sit-down strikes), the Committee considers that these restrictions may be justified only if the strike ceases to be peaceful.

(See the 1996 Digest, paras. 496 and 497; and 306th Report, Case No. 1865, para. 337.)

546. The Committee has considered that the occupation of plantations by workers and by other persons, particularly when acts of violence are committed, is contrary to Article 8 of Convention No. 87. It therefore requested the Government, in future, to enforce the evacuation orders pronounced by the judicial authorities whenever criminal acts are committed on plantations or at places of work in connection with industrial disputes.

(See 323rd Report, Case No. 2021, paras. 324 and 325.)


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