ENTERPRISE, SECTORAL AND GENERAL STRIKES IN INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW

Аннотация

Abstract: Most legal regulation of strikes assumes a single setting: a dispute between a group of workers and their own employer. Yet strikes also take place at the level of a whole sector, in support of other workers, and across an entire economy in protest against government policy. This article examines how international and national law treat strikes at these different levels. It proposes a three-axis typology (scale, target and purpose), sets out the position of ILO supervisory bodies, the 2026 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union, and compares the solutions adopted in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Serbia. The analysis is then applied to the new strike provisions of the Labour Code of Uzbekistan. The author shows that Uzbek law organises collective bargaining at several levels but recognises the strike, in practice, at the level of one employer only, and suggests how this asymmetry could be reduced without opening the door to purely political strikes.