Full strike

With full strike , area strike or total strike , the strike of all employees in a branch of industry is referred to in the context of a labor dispute , whereby a strike is understood as the joint and planned stoppage of work by several employees to enforce certain claims.

The advantage of the full strike is the comparatively faster generation of economic pressure on the employer. From the trade unions' point of view, its disadvantage is that it entitles the relatively large group of striking members to strike money (from the union's strike fund ). For this reason, forms of strikes are predominantly preferred at the present time, which generate a maximum of impact in an entire branch of industry with a relatively small amount of striking employees, for example the main strike in companies that occupy key positions within an industry and, as a result, those of them paralyze dependent commercial enterprises by missing supplies.