Types of Strikes

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Types of Strikes

• Economic Strikes (Primary - Secondary - Partial)
• Intended to resolve a Bargaining Impasse.
• Can only occur in connection with contract
  negotiations.
• Unfair Labor Practice Strike
• Purpose is to force the employer to cease
  committing what the union believes to be unfair
  labor practices. It may or may not occur during
  negotiations.

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Types of Strikes

• Wildcat Strikes
• Conducted by groups of workers without the
  authority and consent of the union.
• Sympathy Strike
• Refusal by one union to work for its employer to
  pressure another (or the same) employer in it
  dealings with a second union.

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Types of Strikes

• Jurisdictional Strike
• To pressure an employer to assign work to the
  members of one bargaining unit rather than
  another or to pressure an employer to recognize
  one union as representative of its employees when
  it already recognizes another.
• Lockout
• Management's equivalent of a strike. It can
  only occur legally when an existing labor
  agreement has expired and there is truly an
  impasse in contract negotiations.