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Honest question. What's the leverage of a union where it is illegal to strike?

• bluGill 6y ago
  Depends. They have a lot of workers and can pull tricks without actually striking. Make every airplane circle one extra time before landing (when not otherwise in an emergency where this would be unsafe) can make a point without doing harm. When dockworkers (IIRC in LA) decided to strike, but were not allowed to, they just came to work but they slowed work by driving forklifts at the 5mph that was in the handbook as the top speed instead of the faster speed they had been driving before. This backfired for them though, when the strike was resolved management took a firmer stance on the speed limit of forklifts because of how much safer everything was.
  • mnw21cam 6y ago
    That's called "work to rule", and it's a common option for union members to be able to vote for, as an action short of a full strike.