Industrial Action

1. INDUSTRIAL ACTION

2. What is Industrial Action?
 “…temporary suspension of normal working
arrangements” (salamon, 2000, p. 411)
 By union members/ non-union members
 Or by management

3. Forms of Industrial action
 Organised collective form Vs Unorganised
individual form
 Organised collective action is more powerful
than unorganised individualaction.
 Use of both forms of industrial action:
complementary

4. Forms of Industrial Action
(cont.)
Different forms of workers’expression of
discontent:
 Withdrawal of co-operation
their
 Withdrawal of workers’representative
consultation
 Excessive use of formal procedure
 Employees exhibit reduction in goodwill
from joint
 Absence of flexibility in resolution of the
problem

5. Forms of Industrial Action
(cont…)
 Work to rule
 Not doing any favour to employer
 Strictly following specified
 Duties as per contractof employment
 Collective agreement on withdrawal of commitment
 social withdrawal
 Overtime ban
 Collective denial of overtime working period
 Collective effort to diminish the production rate

6. Forms of
(cont…)
Industrial Action
 Go-slow
 Strike
 temporary withdrawal of labour and
 Stoppage of work
 Work-in/ sit-in
 Taking control of the workplace
 Denying management access

7. Strike
 The most favoured and
frequently practised form of
collective action
Importance of other
forms of expression

of conflict
denied
is
 Workers can show strong
solidarity and importance of
the issue
Not constructive
the time
all

 Often regarded as a part
of collective bargaining
process
Positive Negative

8. IndustrialAction byEmployer
•Overtime withdrawal
•Lock-out
•Closure