The right to strike: past and present

Identifier:  TFG:667

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TFG667

Authors:  Agredano Bonet, Andreu

Abstract:
Nowadays, the strike is recognized as a fundamental right in the Spanish Constitution (1978). In order to reach that right, this situation has changed because a long historical evolution was necessary, since the initial organized labour movement, marked by conflicts of different conflicts type and an adaptation to the laws of different political regimes, which has join Spain since the early twentieth century. The strike passage of an offense to be a right where the exercise of it is protected by law and courts, and there is a regulation based on a Royal Decree to the current political system, adapted from a judgment of the Constitutional Court. At present, the Spanish constitution maintains the strike as a fundamental right, but in social, political and economic situation in the wake of the financial crisis that began in 2008 as an instrument of the working class exercise is concerned. This situation before a government not considered a necessary element in the tripartite model of labour relations, can be an infringement of a right that was recognized in 1978.