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Understanding Strikes: A Worker’s Guide

A strike is a collective work stoppage by employees in response to grievances, aimed at pressuring employers to meet demands related to pay and working conditions. Causes of strikes include disputes over wages, dissatisfaction with company policies, and wrongful dismissals. Types of strikes include hunger strikes, economic strikes, stay-in strikes, go-slow strikes, and sympathetic strikes, each with distinct characteristics and objectives.

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Understanding Strikes: A Worker’s Guide

A strike is a collective work stoppage by employees in response to grievances, aimed at pressuring employers to meet demands related to pay and working conditions. Causes of strikes include disputes over wages, dissatisfaction with company policies, and wrongful dismissals. Types of strikes include hunger strikes, economic strikes, stay-in strikes, go-slow strikes, and sympathetic strikes, each with distinct characteristics and objectives.

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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.
Causes of Strike
 Dispute relating to minimum wages.
 Salary and incentive issues.
 Increment is not up to the performance.
 Dissatisfaction with the policies of the company.
 Hours of work and interval timings.
 Holidays and leaves with pay.
 Bonus, Provident Fund, and gratuity.
 Withdrawal of any facility or allowance.
 Wrongful dismissal of workmen.
Types of Strike
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

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