From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hplabsb!soreff
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: socialism, capitalism, and strikes
Article-I.D.: hplabsb.1378
Posted: Mon Feb 21 11:31:05 1983
Received: Tue Feb 22 11:04:20 1983

I don't believe that the right to strike should (in theory) be considered
a SOCIALIST right.  In order for there to a free labor market, it must
be possible for employers and employees to terminate jobs freely.  If
employers can conduct or threaten mass layoffs then employees must be
able to quit or threaten to quit en masse.  In practice, of course,
"authoritarian" "capitalist" countries tend to discourage strikes more
forcefully than they discourage mass layoffs.  Even in the US, some of
methods used to discourage strikes in the past have been quite bloody.
			-Jeffrey Soreff (hplabsb!soreff)