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A lockout is a work stoppage or denial of employment initiated by the management of a company during a labor dispute. [1] In contrast to a strike, in which employees refuse to work, a lockout is initiated by employers or industry owners.
Employers may put pressure on a union by declaring a lockout, a work stoppage in which an employer prevents employees from working until certain conditions are met. A lockout changes the psychological impact of a work stoppage and, if the company possesses information about an impending strike, can be enacted prior to the strike's implementation.
A U.S. National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge has ruled Exxon Mobil's 10-month-long lockout of some 600 union workers at a Texas oil refinery during a contract dispute was legal.
Brown v. Texas, 443 U.S. 47 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court determined that the defendant's arrest in El Paso, Texas, for a refusal to identify himself, after being seen and questioned in a high crime area, was not based on a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing and thus violated the Fourth Amendment.
(The Center Square) – Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order “to protect Texans from the coordinated harassment and coercion by the People's Republic of China (PRC) or the Chinese ...
Lockout may refer to: Lockout (industry) , a type of work stoppage Dublin Lockout , a major industrial dispute between approximately 20,000 workers and 300 employers 1913 - 1914
What happened to Zeugner is an illegal lockout, said Brittany Schoenick, an attorney with Legal Action of Wisconsin.She's representing Zeugner in a lawsuit against the new property owners. Zeugner ...
Dunn and Gennard found 111 UK cases of dismissals on the introduction of a closed shop, involving 325 individuals, [4]: 125 and they stated, "While proponents of the closed shop may argue that an estimated minimum 325 dismissals is a relatively small number compared with the total population covered by closed shops, critics would see the figure as substantial arguing that one dismissal is one ...