BAN ON STRIKES

Ban on Strikes



Ban on Strikes

Introduction

Recently in UK when the new government took control, it faced a lot of problems and some of them were challanging. In 2008 there was a global recession period occurring, in which the prices of many food items, gas, oil, and other increased at a high pace. (Hoshi, T. And Kashyap, A. K 2004. pp. 3-26). Now many of the countries have recovered their recession, but some are still in process, U.K is one of the countries which are still in process to recover their recession period, therefore there are many conflicts happening between the new government and the people (http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2007/09/10/42254/which-workers-have-the-right-to-strike.html Retrieved 01, March, 2011).

Many of the people are facing job cuts and some are unable to control the high inflationary rate in their current income. To discuss the current situation about the essential workers strike it is very important to understand what essential worker is? (http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2007/09/10/42254/which-workers-have-the-right-to-strike.htmlRetrieved 01, March, 2011)

“Essential Workers” are the semi-skilled and unskilled workers employed in all sectors of the economy. Essential workers include retail clerks, restaurant workers; manufacturing line workers, construction trades people, food manufacture workers, hotel service workers, health care aids, and landscape workers. Essential workers are very essential for an economy and they play a major role in establishing a well balanced economy (Baillargeon, J., Wilkinson, G, 1998, P.370). These individuals often work in the jobs that many British do not choose, but which are “essential” to keep the economy and the country growing. They pay taxes and work in the places like factories, restaurants, farms etc, and contribute a lot in the economy in terms of money and their skills.

Discussion

Many prison officers in England started to walk out because of their low pay scales and the prices of everything was rising. They were unable to meet their basic necessities in the current pay scale offered by Government. Ministers were surprised because the prison officers Association (POA) broke a 69 year old legal binding “no-strike agreement”. On the other hand Government faced a threat from “essential workers”. Then other unions also started discussing whether they should also join this strike. Other unions include teachers, nurses, and police federation.

Strike was observed contrary to the pay scale and the prices of commodity. There are some agreements in U.K, which should be look before walking out for a strike. The concurrence is known as “No- strike agreements” (Hood, Christopher 1998, P.76).

No-strike agreements

A part of the conformity not to strike a collective agreement, and with unions, private employers is a voluntary contract, agreed in principle to the trade union will not stage industrial action, according to the law firm Hammonds. Labor government after the abolition of the agreement proposed, by the Conservative Party to play criminal justice and Public Order Act 1994, the law of the basic workers to withdraw their services.

The agreement is not legally binding except the terms of the employer to write to the file, so the reason why human capital according to Simon overthrow a partner ...