5.3 Strikes and Lock-out

The strike — the workers' collective withdrawal of labour (the industrial action's weapon); the lock-out — the employer's counter-weapon (the workplace's closure against the workers). The lawful conditions (the Act's discipline — both weapons' mirror): The dispute's exhaustion: the prior process — the negotiation's failure, the conciliation's failure (the labour office's route first); The notice (the statutory notice period before the action); The ballot (the strike's democratic mandate — the members' majority vote; the union's internal discipline); The peaceful conduct (the picketing's limits — no violence, no intimidation; the premises' occupations barred); The prohibitions: the essential services (the strike's bar in the defined sectors); the agreement's term (the no-strike period of the collective agreement); the lawful periods' windows. The illegality's consequences: the illegal strike → the participants' disciplinary exposure (the misconduct's catalogue — Unit 6); the illegal lock-out → the wages' liability (the employer's payment duty for the closure's period). The state's powers: the disputes' reference to adjudication (the government's intervention in the public-interest disputes); the emergency's faces. Exam Focus Long questions: (i) The collective bargaining's machinery — the agent's certification to the agreement's enforcement (the unit's banker); (ii) The strikes-and-lockout's lawful conditions with the illegality's consequences; (iii) The individual-vs-collective grievances' machinery. Short questions: the bargaining agent; the good-faith duty; the no-strike term; the essential services. Trick areas: (i) The…