Swedish postal workers have joined the ongoing strike against Tesla, sparked by the carmaker's refusal to sign a collective bargaining agreement, leading to disruptions in deliveries and escalating tensions in the labour dispute.
Solidarity action (also known as secondary action, a secondary boycott, a solidarity strike, or a sympathy strike) is industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in a separate corporation, but often thesameenterprise, group of companies, or connected firm.
In Australia,Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United States, and the United Kingdom, solidarity action is theoretically illegal, and strikes can only be against the contractual employer.
The term “secondary action” is often used with the intention of distinguishing different types of trade dispute with a worker’s direct contractual employer. Thus, a secondary action is a dispute with the employer’s parent company, its suppliers, financiers, contracting parties, or any other employer in another industry.
A postal strike doesn’t seem to meet any of this criteria.
In the United Kingdom, sympathy strikes were outlawed … repealed … outlawed … The laws outlawing solidarity strikes remain to this day.
An informative link, thank you.
A postal strike doesn’t seem to meet any of this criteria.