Industrial strikes are very common in the countries of the third world. The wage earners, the clerks, the transporters, the postmen, dock-workers often go on strikes if there demands are not accepted. It is a kind of collective bargaining and unique way of exerting pressure on the employers.
In our country even teachers, doctors and nurses also go on strikes. Doctor’s strikes causes great inconvenience for the sick and patients. It is rather inhumane to neglect such an essential duty. Teacher’s strikes set a bad example for the students. Unfortunately, education is already the most neglected subject. The standard is falling day by day. Strike by the teachers or the students lead to closing down of the institutions. The schedules of examination are disturbed if teachers threaten to strike. It is not a respectable way of protest in the noblest profession.
Strikes by the transporters and the sweepers dislocate whole social life. Bus and truck strikes put the passengers, particularly the ladies, children and the sick in great trouble. It is the duty of both government and well-to-do people to remove the stigma from the society.
KAINAT ABDUL MAJEED
Karachi
