Is society better off with strikes?

 From a tweet by Alan Kohler

Serious question: Is society better off with strikes, or without them? Australia is now a society without strikes; it is bipartisan policy that a government body must decide whether workers can withdraw their labour, and it’s virtually impossible to do it. Employers can always withhold their money, but workers cannot withhold their work unless some government employees say they can, which means there can never be balanced negotiations.

[From his piece in The New Daily]  I would point out that the "progressive" opposition in Australia is the Australian Labor Party (ALP), which fully supports preventing workers from striking.


The charts come from responses to his tweet and from his article.