ENThis chapter examines the legal inhibitions on strike action in the new European Union (EU) member state of Lithuania. The right to strike is a part of collective labour law which falls outside the competence of the EU, in terms of the alignment of elaborative provisions of national governments in this sphere. Significant legal inhibitions on the right to strike are embodied in post-independence labour law, and largely reiterated in the new Lithuanian Labour Code of 2002. It is argued here that one of the basic expressions of democratic society, the right to freely withdraw labour in order to assert labour's independent demands, is potentially being compromised. This may pose a longer-term threat to social cohesion, not only within the society, but also to broader European social cohesion, as acceding central and east European countries, such as Lithuania, attempt to integrate into the wider European project of enlargement. [Extract, p. 159]