Are there differences between strike and lockout?

Question

Are there differences between strike and lockout?

Answer 1

Strike is a collective labor decision to refuse to work and discourage others from replacing workers who refuse to work.  Production is impeded.  Owners earnings are adversely affected by diminished production.

Lockout is production halt by owner of plant or factory to adversely affect earning opportunity of labor. The objective is to influence labor by inflicting economic hardship upon laborers who depend upon factory wages for subsistence and survival.

Answer 2

employees strike by refusing to work...  employers lockout is not allowing the employees to work.  

Answer 3

They are both last-ditch labor dispute tactics that shut down a shop, and they are basically the same.  The difference is that an employer locks out, while employees strike.  

Answer 4

From where do these term's come from?

Without knowing i cannot tell you, but the two words alone mean completely different things.