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Do we need a stricter right to strike?

Of course, strikes are annoying.

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Do we need a stricter right to strike?

Of course, strikes are annoying. They should too. Of course, those affected have little understanding for daycare teachers, garbage collectors and train drivers who are absent, after all, you feel the consequences in everyday life. In these cases, each and every one of us is an employer who needs to realize how important these jobs are and that they need to be paid decently. Public service, that's all of us.

Of course, the right to strike is not unlimited. It never was. But the hurdles to curbing it are rightly high, and we shouldn't tear them down. This does not mean that every strike is proportionate. But the task of dealing responsibly with the right to strike, which is protected by our Basic Law, lies solely with the trade unions.

If you overdo it, you lose popular support. But as long as no other fundamental rights are in danger, but only inconveniences such as stationary subways and a lack of childcare, the right to strike should not be touched.

The author regularly wishes that journalists' strikes were only half as effective as those of train drivers.

In 1974, union boss Heinz Kluncker had the garbage workers on strike for three days. Then they had fought for an eleven percent wage increase in the public sector and contributed to driving the country into a recession and Chancellor Willy Brandt (SPD) in the resignation. That would no longer work today.

Berliners, for example, would inevitably endure weeks without garbage collection, they are used to dysfunction. A strike by the Späti staff would probably have a greater effect. But apart from that, it is of course clear to everyone that large parts of public life and the economy can be paralyzed with little effort.

What if the gas and water workers go on strike, the electricity suppliers and long-distance, suburban, underground and tram operators for days? The effects and damage would be gigantic. There must therefore be limits to the right to strike in the area of ​​critical infrastructure. But not through a restriction by law, but the return to the tried and tested: the use of civil servants.

The author went on strike once. The walkout was scheduled for lunch. Since then he has refused to work.

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