What is a “secondary solidarity strike”?
Question by Juliette Liberum: What is a “secondary solidarity strike”?
I read somewhere that the Taft- Hartley Act restricted secondary solidarity strikes, allowed states to ban union- only shops, etc.
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Answer by MBK
A group of workers in Company X come out on strike for more pay or better conditions at Company X. The “secondary solidarity strike” is when workers in company Y, or in several companies (A, B, C) also come out on strike although they have no dispute with their own employers, but rather in the belief that by striking they will help the workers at X to get what they want.
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A secondary strike is also called a sympathy strike.
They were outlawed in the UK in in 1927; and in the USA by the Taft Hartley Act of 1947.
A secondary strike is strike action initiated by workers in one industry and supported by workers in a separate but related industry or profession.
They can also be termed “secondary action” or “sympathy action,” implying that the purpose of the strike is to support, and express sympathy for the primary strikers.
In Australia in the 1910′s sympathy strikes were sometimes called in order to extend a strike beyond the bounds of any one Australian state, thus making it eligible for handling by the Federal Arbitration Court.