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Public sector workers like teachers, police officers, and firefighters rarely strike even when legal because strikes negatively impact communities and can become dangerous. Strikes affect many people by disrupting important services like education, law enforcement, and transportation. For example, a school bus strike in New York City left many parents without transportation for their children. Strikes also risk public safety - a police strike in Boston led to increased crime, while teacher strikes burden whole cities. Since public sector workers are paid by taxpayers, they must convince the entire community to support their demands, not just an employer. The evidence shows strikes by public workers often do more harm than good for communities.
Public sector workers like teachers, police officers, and firefighters rarely strike even when legal because strikes negatively impact communities and can become dangerous. Strikes affect many people by disrupting important services like education, law enforcement, and transportation. For example, a school bus strike in New York City left many parents without transportation for their children. Strikes also risk public safety - a police strike in Boston led to increased crime, while teacher strikes burden whole cities. Since public sector workers are paid by taxpayers, they must convince the entire community to support their demands, not just an employer. The evidence shows strikes by public workers often do more harm than good for communities.
Public sector workers like teachers, police officers, and firefighters rarely strike even when legal because strikes negatively impact communities and can become dangerous. Strikes affect many people by disrupting important services like education, law enforcement, and transportation. For example, a school bus strike in New York City left many parents without transportation for their children. Strikes also risk public safety - a police strike in Boston led to increased crime, while teacher strikes burden whole cities. Since public sector workers are paid by taxpayers, they must convince the entire community to support their demands, not just an employer. The evidence shows strikes by public workers often do more harm than good for communities.
Why are teachers, police officers, and firefighters
refusing to strike? In the text Why Is It Rare for Public Sector Workers to Go on Strike, it states Today, public sector strikes are very rare even when they are legal. These are the types of workers who need better pay, better working conditions and better benefits. While many public workers should seek fair rights and strike, public workers should not strike because it affects too many people and it becomes too dangerous. Body Paragraph #1 One of the major reasons strikes should be prohibited is it affects too many people. According to What Is a Strike?, Workers will strike if they cannot come to an agreement with their employer or change their employers policies by using other means. Therefore, many workers have union leaders that will protect those rights and help them get what they want. After the school bus strike in New York City, many school bus drivers refused to work. For instance, Forty percent of the buses were running Wednesday, the city said, because they are not driven by members of the striking Amalgamated Transit Union (Christian Science Monitor). Parents felt frustrated because they had to find alternate transportation and the city because they had to reimburse students. Body Paragraph #2
Another key point to emphasize is strikes become
way too dangerous or risky. In the article titled, What Is a Strike?, it says, Strikes are the most effective way that workers can use their strength as a group to improve their working conditions. While this may be true to union leaders, strikes can often lead to damaging consequences. To clarify, Mia Lewis explains what happened during a police station strike in Boston in 1919. Criminals went on a rampage after police refused to work (Mia Lewis). Consequently, this could have resulted in a mob situation or the entire city shutting down. Also, the public were not pleased and the unions reputation suffered as a result. A similar situation happened in New York City when school bus drivers did not show up to work (Stacy Khadaroo) and the teacher strike in Chicago. Since these people work for the public and the public pays for their salary, they are the decision makers on whether or not public workers receive pay increases. Furthermore, to win the strike they must convince an entire community or city. This not only becomes a headache for teachers and police officers but it also could put a whole community at risk. Conclusion: It is important to realize all worker should obtain fair and equal rights, however, at what cost? Evidence proves there is more consequences and negative effects on an entire city and community since public employees work for many different people. To put it another way, public workers should consider and weigh the risks involved in refusing to work. Therefore, public workers should not strike.