Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Strike
n. 1. An organized cessation or slowdown of work by employees to compel the employer to meet the employees' demands. Cf. LOCKOUT; BOYCOTT; PICKETING.
Strikebreaker
See SCAB.
ca'canny strike
A strike in which the workers remain on the job but work at a slower pace to reduce their output.
economic strike
A strike resulting from an economic dispute with the employer (such as a wage dispute); a dispute for reasons other than unfair labor practices. ( An employer can permanently replace an economic striker but cannot prevent the worker from coming back to an unreplaced position simply because the worker was on strike.
general strike
A strike organized to affect an entire industry.
illegal strike
1 A strike using unlawful procedures. 2. A strike to obtain unlawful objectives, as in a strike to force an employer to stop doing business with a particular company.
illegal strike.
See STRIKE.
jurisdictional strike
A strike resulting from a dispute between members of different unions over work assignments.
motion to strike
1. Civil procedure. A party's request that the court delete insufficient defenses or immaterial, redundant, impertinent, or scandalous statements from an opponent's pleading. Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(f). 2. Evidence. A request that inadmissible evidence be deleted from the record and that the jury be instructed to disregard it.
no-strike clause
A labor-agreement provision that prohibits employees from striking for any reason and establishes instead an arbitration system for resolving labor disputes.
offensive strike
See STRIKE.
organizational strike
See recognition strike under STRIKE.
outlaw strike
See wildcat strike. quickie strike. See wildcat stake.
outlaw strike.
See wildcat strike under STRIKE.
peremptory strike
See peremptory challenge under CHALLENGE (2).
quickie strike
See wildcat strike under STRIKE.
recognition strike
A strike by workers seeking to force their employer to acknowledge the union as their collective-bargaining agent. ( After the National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935, recognition strikes became unnecessary. Under the Act, the employer is required to recognize an NLRBcertified union for bargaining purposes. -Also termed organizational strike.
recognition strike.
See STRIKE,
rent strike
A refusal by a group of tenants to pay rent until grievances with the landlord are heard or settled.
secondary strike
A strike against an employer because that employer has business dealings with another employer directly involved in a dispute with the union. See secondary boycott under BOYCOTT; secondary picketing under PICKETING.
sit-down strike
A strike in which employees occupy the workplace but do not work.
strike
ub. 1. (Of an employee or union) t engage in a strike <the flight attendants struck to protest the reduction in benefits>. 2. T remove (a prospective juror) from a jury panel by a peremptory challenge or a challenge for cause <the prosecution struck the panelist who indicated an opposition to the death penalty> See peremptory challenge under CHALLENGE. 3 To expunge, as from a record <motion to strike the prejudicial evidence>.
strike down
To invalidate (a statute); to declare void.
strike fund
See STRIKE FUND.
strike off
(Of a court)to order (a case) removed from the docket. 2. (Of an auctioneer) to announce, usu. by the falling of the hammer, that an item has been sold.
strike price
Securities. The price for which a security will be bought or sold under an option contract if the option is exercised. -Also termed striking price; exercise price; call price; put price. See OPTION.
strike suit
A suit (esp. a derivative action), often based on no valid claim, brought either for nuisance value or as leverage to obtain a favorable or inflated settlement.
sympathy strike
A strike by union members who have no grievance against their own employer but who want to show support for another union involved in a labor dispute.
three-strikes law
A statute prescribing an enhanced sentence, esp. life imprisonment, for a repeat offender's third felony conviction. About half the states have enacted a statute of this kind. - Also termed three-strikes-andyou're-out law.
wildcat strike
A strike not authorized by a union or in violation of a collective-bargaining agreement. - Also termed outlaw strike; quickie strike. 2. The removal of a prospective juror from the jury panel <a peremptory strike>. See CHAL- LENGE (2>. 3. A failure or disadvantage, as by criminal conviction <a strike on one's sec ord > .
wildcat strike.
See STRIKE.