If we do strike, I heard the company can hire new people to do our work. Will I lose my job?
If we do strike, I heard the company can hire new people to do our work. Will I lose my job? Answer: During an economic strike, employees cannot be fired in the literal sense because that would be violating the NLRA’s ban on terminating employees for involving in protected, concerted activities (University of Maryland University College [UMUC], 2019a). However, the company can hire temporary workers to continue to run the business while its current employees are on strike. Should the company hire permanent replacements, and they are told that they are permanent at the time of hire, the strikers, then, are not entitled to reinstatement (“The Right to Strike”, n.d.). When the company hires either temporary or permanent replacements, the current employees returning to work after the strike will be placed on a priority recall list. The company will contact them as each vacancy occurs. In other words, the current employees have the first choice when there is a job opening, and then the company can reach out to new candidates. I have a family and bills to…