No-Strike Clause

  • Contracts Are Worth Defending, Even with No-Strike Clauses
    Guillermo Perez
    Jan 19 2012 - 1:51pm
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    After seeing hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate in Wisconsin and Ohio to defend collective bargaining, it seems odd to read in Labor Notes that union contracts are “a trap” that “hold unions back.”

    Stanley Aronowitz’s January 2012 Viewpoint said, “Labor is confined by contract unionism, whose core is the no-strike clause.”

  • No-Strike Clauses Hold Back Unions
    Stanley Aronowitz
    Dec 15 2011 - 12:24pm
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    When leaders of the Occupy movement’s most reliable labor ally, the Longshore Union (ILWU), declared the union would not participate in Monday’s shutdown of West Coast ports, they illustrated a great weakness plaguing our unions.

  • "Irresponsible" Striking

    We’ve known for a while now that the economic crisis has dampened the willingness of workers to head out on strike (with some courageous exceptions). That’s partly due to the business class and the corporate press, who take every opportunity to poison the atmosphere against rank and filers who dare to resist corporate demands.

  • Machinists Size Up Boeing's No-Strike Demand
    Tiffany Ten Eyck
    Oct 27 2009 - 10:26pm
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    After years of struggling to get its new 787 Dreamliner aloft, Boeing Co. is still mired in malfunction. Company execs are using their missteps as an excuse to seek a no-strike clause and to move some production out of Washington state, where the Machinists union (IAM) represents the workforce.