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Right to Strike Activity Pack

These workshops, written in 2011, aim to achieve the following:

  • Provoke a debate between members about the right to strike.
  • Allow for a debate about the particular issues of pensions.
  • Get members to think about their own position, and how they want to respond to the strike.
  • Complete a concrete action from the workshop.

The Right to Strike — Facts

  • The European Court of Human Rights has previously ruled that the right to strike is a human right.
  • Under Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights it is also a human right to be a part of a trade union.
  • Strikes have been a tool used by workers to fight for a number of issues:
    • fairer wages.
    • safer and healthier working conditions.
    • fairer pension plans.
    • job security.
  • To go on strike, a worker gives up their pay for every day they strike. Long strikes, such as the miners’ strike have huge impacts on working communities.
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