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In the UK the police are neither allowed to form a union or strike.
by jimnotgym 4y ago
In the UK the police are neither allowed to form a union or strike.
- denton-scratch 4y agoThey have a union: The Police Federation. It's true the police in the UK are not allowed to strike.
- iasay 4y agoWe just have the masons instead which spans the police, CPS and the entire rest of the legal system. Been burned big time by that.
- jstanley 4y agoHow can you ban people from going on strike? The entire point of a strike is that you're not working when you're supposed to be.
- bombcar 4y agoYou make it illegal to negotiate based on work stoppages, to plan a strike, or otherwise conspire to strike. And you permanently fire those who do. It happened to air traffic controllers in the US.
- kqr 4y agoHow to ban people in general from striking is easy: you just call the cops on them. How to prevent the cops from striking I don't know...
- mschuster91 4y agoIn Germany, police officers, soldiers and (depending on the state) teachers and other sort of public officials swear an oath of office that bans them from strikes ("Beamte").
- formerly_proven 4y agoOTOH they can't be fired, get excellent and cheap health insurance for the entire family, and retirement pay is far beyond the normal pension system, meanwhile the pay increases are often coupled to the results negotiated by unions for equivalent employees.
- wahnfrieden 4y agobiden literally just did this yesterday
- ThunderSizzle 4y agoAlthough that's also a bad answer, since their employer (the government) is also a monopoly with even more power than most businesses.