Discuss four types of strike

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1. Economic Strike: Under this type of strike, labors stop their work to enforce
their economic demands such as wages and bonus. In these kinds of strikes,
workers ask for increase in wages, allowances like traveling allowance, house
rent allowance, dearness allowance, bonus and other facilities such as increase in privilege leave and casual leave.
2. Sympathetic Strike: When workers of one unit or industry go on strike in
sympathy with workers of another unit or industry who are already on strike,
it is called a sympathetic strike. The members of other unions involve themselves in a strike to support or express their sympathy with the members of
unions who are on strike in other undertakings. The workers of sugar industry
may go on strike in sympathy with their fellow workers of the textile industry
who may already be on strike.
3. General Strike: It means a strike by members of all or most of the unions
in a region or an industry. It may be a strike of all the workers in a particular region of industry to force demands common to all the workers. These
strikes are usually intended to create political pressure on the ruling government, rather than on any one employer. It may also be an extension of the
sympathetic strike to express generalized protest by the workers.
4. Sit down Strike: In this case, workers do not absent themselves from their
place of work when they are on strike. They keep control over production
facilities. But do not work. Such a strike is also known as ’pen down’ or
’tool down’ strike. Workers show up to their place of employment, but they
refuse to work. They also refuse to leave, which makes it very difficult for
employer to defy the union and take the workers’ places. In June 1998, all the
Municipal Corporation employees in Punjab observed a pen down strike to
protest against the non-acceptance of their demands by the state government.
5. Slow Down Strike: Employees remain on their jobs under this type of strike.
They do not stop work, but restrict the rate of output in an organized manner.
They adopt go-slow tactics to put pressure on the employers.
6. Sick-out (or sick-in): In this strike, all or a significant number of union members call in sick on the same day. They don’t break any rules, because they
just use their sick leave that was allotted to them on the same day. However,
the sudden loss of so many employees all on one day can show the employer
just what it would be like if they really went on strike.
7. Wild cat strikes: These strikes are conducted by workers or employees without the authority and consent of unions. In 2004, a significant number of
advocated went on wildcat strike at the City Civil Court premises in Bangalore. They were protesting against some remarks allegedly made against
them by an Assistant Commissioner

Titany answered the question on December 3, 2021 at 07:45

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