Strike Legality Debate
The cluster debates whether actions like sympathy or solidarity strikes by employees or contractors refusing to work for specific companies (e.g., Tesla, Mozilla) constitute legal strikes, especially under US laws prohibiting strikes for federal employees, essential services like police and judges, and unions.
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You questions are bizarre. Of course judges and police should be able to strike. Usually critical areas like law, health, will not strike completely but have some employees keep working on critical tasks.There is no arbitrariness in this, its fantasy of yours. There are common agreements between workers associations and employers, often different by profession. If these are not upheld by the parties involved, several tools of labor struggle are legal to be used, like striking an sympathy stri
It is illegal for them to strike. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/7311
Seems like a response to the recent workers strike.
They are not a union and are not "striking".Even if they were a union, they wouldn't be allowed to strike in order to force their employer to deplatform someone, they could only strike to get a contract. If they have a contract, they can't strike.
It’s a strike. How could the workers be prohibited from deciding whether to strike?
…according to you:) This is a so called sympathy strike: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_action
This is exactly what a strike is. It sometimes works.
It's the people who are on strike, not the company. Are people where you live not allowed to go on strike?
It is illegal to fire employees who are participating in lawful strike.
That's not attacking Mozilla. This is like joining a strike. If you're on strike you're not attacking the company. Though IMO unions in US are a little bit weird (too much power play).