RIGHT TO STRIKE: AN UNSETTLED WEAPON
Abhaya chandran K
Assistant Professor
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Labour legislation guaranteed the right to negotiate, collective bargain, and strike for workers in
workplaces and employment-related processes due to great sacrifices and agitations with a history as
long as human life. From the end of the 18th century, organised movements developed, and through
three centuries of continuous struggle, the needs of the workers in the workplace achieved an
organised character and brought security and self-confidence among them.1 This article is trying to
analyse one controversial question: whether the right to strike is intrinsically linked to the freedoms
of association or union, so the right to strike is a fundamental part of a democratic state. The right to
strike has been recognised as crucial in the process of collective bargaining. The labour movement is
also known for its strikes for the decent lives of labourers. The word strikes ordinary meaning is
associated with labour rights and their collective movements for better living standards. It denotes
noncooperation in the industry against the employer and some aggressive nature on the part of
collective labour as recognised as one form of collective bargaining under labour jurisprudence.
Keywords: WEAPON; Labour legislation; workers; collective bargain; strike