Right to strike
Sir,—Mr Doug Catley, of the Island Bay branch of. the National Party said that ' the right to strike is traditional but so is the right to work and advocated that workers should be allowed to break picket lines. What this means is that if in a factory of 50 workers, a vote is taken on strike action and the result is 30 to 20 in favour of striking, Mr Catley would say the minority 20 should still be able to work. To follow this argument through, Mr Catley would logically also have to agree that if the vote was 30 to 20 against striking, the minority 20 in that case should also have the right to strike. But he did not say that. Why? Because he is an employer. Workers on a picket line are defending a majority democratic decision and as we all heard last week, we cannot have anarchy can we?—Yours, etc..
PETER CONWAY? August 1. 1981.
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