Description
Our thematic issue on the ‘Right to Strike’ is now published by the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal at: https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cllpj/
Free to access, guest editors: Tonia Novitz, Katherine Fitzpatrick, & Jeffrey Vogtrick, & Jeffrey Vogt
The contents are as follows:
ARTICLES
The Enduring Relevance of the Right to Strike: Arguments for Further Legal Protection and Regulatory Reform – Tonia Novitz, Katherine Fitzpatrick, & Jeffrey Vogt
Dignity and the Right to Strike – Sergio Gamonal C
Strikes and the Struggle for Democracy – Angela B. Cornell & Ruth Dukes
Balancing the Right to Strike and Other Public Interests: The Importance of the Status of the Right to Strike – Petra Herzfeld Olsson & Shae Mccrystal
Labour Against the Law? Contesting the Restrictive Norms of Industrial Legality Through Unlawful Strikes – Eric Tucker
Strike Law and Workers’ Power Resources in Global Supply Chains and Platform Giants – Judy Fudge & Hila Shamir
Rhetoric and reality: The P&O Ferries scandal and the right to strike – Alan Bogg
Turning Up the Heat: The Right to Strike and the Climate Crisis – Jeffrey Vogt & Ruwan Subasinghe
In this thematic issue, the contributors demonstrate the past and contemporary relevance of a right to strike. Some authors do so with reference to the long-standing role that such an entitlement plays in protecting dignity, democracy, and other vital public interests. Attention is also paid to emerging contemporary issues, whereby the right to strike offers important leverage that would otherwise be absent, for example countering abusive treatment of those at work in global supply chain practices and the environmental degradation of the planet. They all conclude that, while it is possible to utilise existing legal protections of a right to strike that operate nationally, regionally, and internationally, it is also important to contemplate enhancement of existing legal and associated regulatory mechanisms. They address why this should be done and, accordingly, how this may be done.