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  1. From plaster casts to picket lines: Public support for industrial action in the National Health Service in England.Martin Ejnar Hansen & Steven David Pickering - 2024 - Nursing Inquiry 31 (3):e12637.
    This paper explores public sentiment towards strike action among healthcare workers, as a result of their perceived inadequate pay. By analysing survey data collected in England between 2022 and 2023, the study focuses on NHS nurses and junior doctors, due to their critical role in delivering essential public services. Results indicate higher public support for strikes by nurses and junior doctors compared to other professions such as postal workers, teachers, rail workers, airport workers, civil servants and university lecturers. However, variation (...)
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  • Are strikes extortionate?Ned Dobos - 2021 - Philosophical Studies 179 (1):245-264.
    Workers who go on strike are sometimes accused of holding their employer “to ransom”, the implication being that strike action is a kind of extortion. The paper provides an analytical reconstruction of this objection, before presenting and interrogating different strategies for countering it. The first says that work-stoppages can only be extortionate if they infringe an employer’s rightful claim to productive labour, but that no employer has any such claim under capitalism. The second says that work-stoppages cannot be extortionate because, (...)
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  • UK doctors’ strikes 2023: not only justified but, arguably, supererogatory.Doug McConnell & Darren Mann - 2024 - Journal of Medical Ethics 50 (3):152-156.
    The 2023 doctors’ strikes in the UK have elicited a familiar moral outcry that such strikes are morally wrong. We consider five arguments that might be thought to show doctors’ strikes are morally impermissible but show that they all fail. The most we can conclude from such arguments is that doctors’ strikes are morally permissible in a narrower range of circumstances than strikes in other sectors.We then outline two independent but compatible justifications for doctors’ strikes, one that appeals to doctors’ (...)
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  • Healthcare strikes and the ethics of voting in ballots.Ben Saunders - forthcoming - Journal of Medical Ethics.
    There has been much discussion of the justifiability of strikes by healthcare workers, but comparatively little discussion of the political processes through which strikes occur. This article focuses on the Trade Union Act 2016, which currently governs strike ballots in the UK. This legislation has important implications for healthcare workers being balloted on strikes (or other forms of industrial action). The article first explains the legal requirements for a strike mandate and illustrates how votes in strike ballots can be counterproductive, (...)
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  • Should junior doctors strike?Mark Toynbee, Adam A. J. Al-Diwani, Joe Clacey & Matthew R. Broome - 2016 - Journal of Medical Ethics 42 (3):167-170.
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  • A framework for assessing the ethics of doctors' strikes.Adam James Roberts - 2016 - Journal of Medical Ethics 42 (11):698-700.
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  • Protest of doctors: a basic human right or an ethical dilemma.Imran Naeem Abbasi - 2014 - BMC Medical Ethics 15 (1):24.
    Peaceful protests and strikes are a basic human right as stated in the United Nations’ universal declaration on human rights. But for doctors, their proximity to life and death and the social contract between a doctor and a patient are stated as the reasons why doctors are valued more than the ordinary beings. In Pakistan, strikes by doctors were carried out to protest against lack of service structure, security and low pay. This paper discusses the moral and ethical concerns pertaining (...)
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