Strikes spread within and between industrial sectors
Strikes are contagious. So there is a chance that the security staff at Schiphol who held a strike yesterday and the further education college lecturers who are striking tomorrow will also encourage other to strike. Strikes, such as the one currently taking place in the cleaning sector, can even spread to other sectors. The risk of this is greatest between two weeks and six months after the start of the strike. The highest chance of contagiousness occurs about a month after the strike started. That is apparent from research led by NWO researcher Agnes Akkerman, which was carried out at Radboud University Nijmegen. Akkerman will present the research results on 21 May during the final conference of the NWO research programme Conflict and Security.