M Mdladlana: Annual Labour Law Conference

[Dave A]

This is balanced by the right to lockout by employer parties. The fact that you do not want to use it is your problem.

That is no balancing tool at all. Business regards lockout as an absolute last resort (to be used to protect the business from striking workers, normally) and not a negotiating tool. You are also suggesting that the very mechanism labour so willingly uses against business is equally effective in curbing labour's actions.

Quite clearly one does not balance out the other at all. It's like taking the stick you beat us with, handing it over and saying "go ahead - beat yourself!"

[duncan drennan]

That is no balancing tool at all.

What do you believe a fair balancing tool would be?

Maybe I need to ask some other questions first (I have no idea how strikes work) - what are the tools and mechanisms for negotiating wages?