Strikes in your nation?

[Vallermoore]

It is illegal to go on strike in Vallermoore 1) if violence is used and/or 2) if anybody other then those directly responsible for the low pay or other cause of the strike are caught up in it. Illegal strikers can be fined, whipped, or even jailed.

What are the laws on strikes in your nation?
Are trade unions allowed?

[Gandoor]

Striking is perfectly legal, provided they're non-violent, as striking is considered part of freedom of assembly, one of the inalienable freedoms given to all within our nation.

Trade unions are legal and an important part in Gandoor, most workers are in unions. (We're a socialist nation, what do you expect?)

[Davao City-State]

Strikes are pretty illegal since they stop productivity in a definite time.
Protesters shall be sanctioned

[Formicashig]

Striking is legal but frowned upon, and can only be done if more than 50% of the members of a union have voted to strike, and with advance notice of the intention to strike.

[Stormaen]

Strikes are legal but must be approved by a 'majority of a majority' of members of a given union: 50%+1 a union's membership must approve strike action on a 50%+1 turnout.

Strikes must also be non-violent and must not "harass or otherwise discriminate"; meaning someone who is a part of the Union and chooses not to strike cannot be forced to strike or forced out of the union or discriminated against for their decision.

In Stormaen, less than 1 in 6 workers are part of a trade union. They were largely rendered redundant in the 1980s when employment law changed to create the Employment Arbitration Agency, an independent public body charged with fostering improved industrial relations and arbitrating industrial disputes.

[Liberty and Alderney]

Technically legal and supposedly a right, strikes are nonetheless cracked down upon heavily by the LCPD for the sake of appeasing corporations maintaining peace.

[Soviet Catalonia]

Trade unions are allowed... But only one - a government owned one. There is no reason for strikers to strike in our nation - but now that we have a one party system and extreme police force they can be put in solitary confinement for nine years plus beatings and no fresh air.

Loyalty to the state is not to be breached

[Anollasia]

Strikes are legal, but they must be non-violent and last for a day or less.

[Ardoki]

Union membership is compulsory in Ardoki for all workers. So, unions are obviously legal and provide a lot of funding to the ruling Democratic Republican Congress. So strikes are definitely legal and protected by both legislation and the constitution.

[Neo Philippine Empire]

Protesters are to be shot.

[Den Hari]

Strikes aren't banned, because the very idea is ridiculous. There is no compulsion to work, and no private owners to strike against. The days of striking workers are a thing of the past, a relic of class society.

[Zorbae]

Strikes can only take place if two-thirds of union members vote in favour of doing so. Strikes can only last one day, must be government approved, and public transport, emergency services and finance-based unions cannot strike.

[Soyghuristan]

Strikes are legal but not very tolerated, the anti-riot forces are allowed to shoot them

[Blakullar]

The right for a worker to voice his/her grievances without interference from the State or another party is entrenched in the Mecharussian constitution, and so strikes of any kind are legal. In practice, however, causing a disruption through industrial action, especially through violence, can land the strikers a big penalty for rioting and political dissent. Therefore, workers who have an industry-related complaint often consult their provincial ombudsperson and the issue will automatically be referred to the Oblast Governor to sort out using whatever method is necessary. Often the Governor will delegate the task of mediation to a lower-ranking official, usually a Mintrukom (Commissar from the Ministry of Labour), who will invite the employer and the employee(s) to a meeting to work out their differences.

[Imperium Sidhicum]

The majority of Imperium's industries are considered part of the massive military-industrial complex that powers the Sidh war machine. This complex is expected to run like clockwork by the government and the military (which are effectively one and the same). Every time there's a break in production for any reason, people die, and not just soldiers, but also civilians whom they protect.

Hence striking or other forms of disrupting the nation's industrial output is both strictly forbidden and morally unthinkable. Every proper Sidh knows that lives depend on him working his shift to the best of his efforts, and in case that knowledge is not enough of a motivation, the chance to get a 10-year course in the new meaning of "poor working conditions" in one of Imperium's many labour camps for economic sabotage certainly is.

That being said, Sidh workers have little reason to strike over to begin with. The state rewards their work quite generously - all workers get three free meals every day, comfortable living quarters close to work, paid vacations, regular sports and recreation events for the collective, paid sick leaves, chance to earn promotion (which comes along with access to new forms of physical augmentation), etc. All that is expected of them in return is diligent and uninterrupted work. Labour contracts that detail workers' duties and rights in any given job contain specific clauses forbidding any activities that may be disruptive to production (i.e., strikes), so any potential strikers can in the very least be prosecuted under administrative laws for unlawfully breaking contract.

Consequently, strikes are a very rare occurrence in the Imperium, mostly taking place in protest against particularly inept, corrupt or otherwise ineffective administration rather than typical labour disputes. Settling of labour disputes is expected to be discreet and undisruptive to production.

[Makaar]

Striking is legal. A strike must be called by a union following a secret ballot of its members. If the union calls a strike, then the strikers are immune from disciplinary proceedings arising in connection with their participation in the refusal to work. Those who "strike" without legal union backing are subject to normal disciplinary proceedings for refusal to work. Strikers are entitled to no pay or benefits through the duration of the strike.

If an employer does anything intended to prevent the formation of a union, he may be sued for damages in civil court.

[Lipnitia]

Strikes are legal but usually frowned upon in legal matters, but there are usually no consequences if the strikes are not violent.

[Swilatia]

Striking is legal and a constitutional right.

[The Third Nova Terra of Scrin]

If anyone strikes here, we simply tell them to shut up. Nobody is allowed to disturb public order in Tanzhiye.

[Valkalan]

Strikes are legal but rare. The Valk labor market is not subject to regulations such as the minimum wage and mandatory social benefits. Therefore, dissatisfied Valk workers are usually able to simply quit a job and fine a more suitable employer elsewhere. In addition the automation of Valkalan's industries has increasingly removed human labor from the mines and assembly lines and other sectors where hazards are common. Most working class Valks find work as technical support agents who program and maintain the myriad of automation found in Valkalan; such work is hardly laborious.

[The Victory Corporation]

In the Victory Corporation, if workers strike, a small team is put together by the Worker Health and Safety board to investigate. If the team finds evidence that the workers are being mistreated, or are receiving too little pay and/or too many work hours for the importance of their job, usually there is some form of appeasement to the workers, such as a pay grade rise. If no problems are found, and the workers do not return within 24 hours after the investigation is completed, they can be fired.

[The Nexus of Man]

Industrial strikes are illegal in the Nexus, period point blank. Petitions are legal, however, but the cease of work without proper paperwork will result in criminal charges.

[The Danish Confederacy]

Strikes:
Illegal.
Period.
Shot if striking.
Unions:
ONLY ALLOWED IF
They don't badger companies into certain things

[Holy Altmoran Empire]

As a Fascist State, workers are protected against the Private Sector in the AWU Union (State-owned Union) which will organise strikes if a Private Company upsets enough people or the Government.
Strikes in the Public Sector, however are a different matter. Since they're in a State-Owned Union, they lack the right and capability to Strike in a proper manner. If unrest within the Union begins to brew, the demands will usually be met before a strike actually happens, if they are reasonable enough.

Essentially, Altmora uses Trade Unions as a method of controlling the Market.

[Victorious Decepticons]

Strikes are legal, but they're quite rare. Decepticons strongly prefer to take "more decisive" actions against bad employers, such as:

- Looting the factory to the bare walls
- Looting the inside of the factory and then stealing the building itself (Cybertronian buildings are made of metal and can be cut up and sold as scrap)
- Opening fire on offending managers and/or owners with lethal energy blasters
- Dropping a bomb on the company
- Any combination of the above

Of course, companies aren't always stupid enough to just stand there when hostilities seem to be reaching this point. Our businesses take the idea of "Pinkerton agents" to the Nth degree with private guard forces that won't hesitate to open fire on any groups who appear to be marching on their employers in a militaryesque way.

When it comes to strikes, even these are far different than they would be in the types of civilization that like to try to play off weakness as "civilization." They tend to play out something like they did on Earth in the 1930s - when they start out. Generally, such a scene will go something like this:

- A large number of workers will show up at the company's main location with signs and begin the picket. As in the 1930s of Earth, they will block all of the entrances, essentially putting the company under siege.
- The company will understandably get pissed at this, and will soon send out (or call in) its "Labor Relations Task Force" or similarly euphemistically-named paramilitary force.
- Battle #1 will commence. Both sides will attempt to drive off and/or kill the other.
- If the company wins, the strike is over and all surviving strikers are fired. "Now hiring!"
- If the strikers win, the company will bother to send a guy out to see what they want.
- The guy will go back inside.
- If the management shows up with carts of Energon, that's a yes.
- If a much bigger "Labor Relations Task Force" shows up, that means no.

- In the second case, Battle #1 commences.
- This continues until one side or the other runs out of guys who are willing to fight.
- If the company runs out of money to hire troops first, it loses and it will do what the workers want. If it refuses even after losing, it will have a management change after the workers storm it and kill the executives.
- If the workers are overpowered, the Labor Relations Task Force drives them off and the company hires new workers if any are willing to work for it.

Workers almost always find it far more expedient to just raid or bomb the place and be done with it. Jobs here are a Cube a dozen since hardly anyone wants them anyway. Our workers are already prone to dumping their jobs to go raid as soon as they have enough Energon saved up to make it to an offworld destination and back. There's no point in going through a lot of hassle to try to improve bad jobs when that is the mindset! The smoking crater left by the bombing of a bad employer can serve as a warning to the next one,

As for our military production, it is free from labor strife. All military-industrial work is done by active soldiers who are ordered to do it. For them, refusing is treason. This both ensures that the work is actually done and keeps the military production separate from our highly corrupt civilian sphere. Because of this system, a surprisingly large subset of the 10% of our population that is conscripted into the military at any given time is actually occupied working in military factories. Still, even these soldiers are given basic training and the standard mil-spec weapons loadout, and someone who attacks under the assumption that our factories are run by wimpy civilians will be in for it.