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Is American practice in this regard radically different to Europe?

• klausa 3y ago
  Well, there's no unified legal frameworks for them across all of _Europe_, for starters. But in many places there's no need to get the members to authorize the strike, the union itself holds that power (I am at least 99% sure that's the case in Germany and France, at the very least.)
  • Tomte 3y ago
    In Germany members have to vote for a strike and also for ending a strike. The term is "Urabstimmung".
    • klausa 3y ago
      Right, yes, I oversimplified. You don’t need a vote for „Warnstreik” (warning strike), which frequently is enough to make a point, which makes the „real”/open-ended strikes much more rare than otherwise. AFAICT all strikes I’ve ever seen happen here (the plethora of different train and airport unions) were technically warning strikes and not „real” ones; but they were enough to get the unions their wins.