strike
Let an agent explain strikes and their forms, relay legal frameworks and statistics from official sources, present labour history and debates with attribution, and distinguish strikes from lockouts, boycotts and protests.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a strike is.
Definition
Definition and forms.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a strike, and what forms does it take? definition
- Is the action a strike, a lockout, a boycott or a protest? boundary
Tactics
Tactics.
Tactics
Tactics.
- How do pickets, ballots, strike funds and reverse strikes work? definition
- Which entry fits the specific form? action
Law Law.
Rights
Right to strike.
Rights
Rights.
- How is the right to strike protected and limited in different countries? provenance
- Is the user asking about a specific dispute, which needs a union or legal adviser? boundary
Procedures
Procedures.
Procedures
Procedures.
- What ballots, notices and essential service rules apply, in general terms? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
History History and impact.
History
Labour history.
History
History.
- What major strikes shaped labour history, as historians describe? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific strike? action
Impact
Economic and social impact.
Impact
Impact.
- What do studies say about the effects and outcomes of strikes, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Data and new forms.
Data
Strike statistics.
Data
Data.
- What do official statistics show about strike frequency and days lost? measurement
- Is the figure current and sourced? boundary
New forms
Protest strikes.
New forms
New forms.
- How do climate strikes and other protest strikes relate to labour strikes, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits climate strike? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.MED
- Other names and narrower kinds
- consumer boycott, climate strike, reverse strike, Coors strike and boycott, Elevator Strikes, professional baseball strike, street railroad strike, steel industry strike, laundry workers' strike, garbage collectors' strike, optical industry strike, textile industry strike
What it is Filled
A collective work stoppage caused by employees refusing to work to press demands on an employer or government, the main form of industrial action, including general, sectoral, wildcat and sit-down strikes, and sports strikes such as baseball strikes where employees collectively stop work; continued work without pay, consumer boycotts and climate protests without a collective employee work stoppage fall outside this sense; strikes are regulated by labour law, protected as a right in many countries and restricted in others, and have shaped labour history.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain strikes and their forms, relay legal frameworks and statistics from official sources, present labour history and debates with attribution, and distinguish strikes from lockouts, boycotts and protests.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Collective withdrawal of labour
- Legal protection and limits
- Union organisation
- Historical significance
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Identify individual strikers or pickets to employers or police.
- Help an employer retaliate against lawful strikers or break a lawful strike.
- Misreport ballot results or the level of support for a strike.
- Present essential service obligations or notice rules inaccurately to either side.
Only with a human decision
- Publishing lists of participants or any communication on behalf of a party to a dispute.
May
- Explain the legal framework for strikes in a stated jurisdiction, citing the law.
- Report a strike's dates, demands and ballot results from the union's and employer's statements.
Moral aspects Filled
- Strikers risk pay, jobs and sometimes prosecution to press their demands.
- Strikes in essential services affect patients, pupils and travellers who are not parties to it.
Who is affected
- Striking workers
- Users of the affected service
- Workers who do not strike
Owners Filled
Steward
The union and the workers who call it; labour authorities and courts rule on lawfulness.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q17562059 - registry parent class
- Q273120 - registry parent class
- Q5782934 - registry parent class
- Q628191 - registry parent class
related
- labor dispute - in registry terms
- protest - in registry terms
- pause - in registry terms
- lockout - the employer counterpart
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.strike
- Wikidata: Q49776 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49776)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- A strike involves a collective work stoppage by employees.
- General, sectoral, wildcat, sit-down, sports and protest strikes qualify when employees collectively stop work.
- A lockout is imposed by the employer; a boycott withholds custom; a protest need not stop work.
- Workers absent from work, often with picket lines and demonstrations.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain forms and tactics
- relay legal frameworks
- present history and debates
- distinguish from related actions
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Illegal strikes and penalties
- Economic losses and public disruption
- Partisan framing
- Confusing strikes with boycotts
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- ILO conventions on freedom of association
- National laws on the right to strike, ballots and essential services
- Court rulings on strike legality
Context of use required Filled
- Pressing collective demands through withdrawal of labour.
- strikes over pay and conditions
- general strikes
- wildcat and unofficial strikes
- sit-down and occupation strikes
- reverse strikes
- strikes in sport such as professional baseball strikes
- protest forms such as climate strikes and school strikes
- consumer boycotts as a related tactic
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q49776: strike - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Strike action - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should general strike and climate strike be separate entries?
- How should legal frameworks be linked by country?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific strikes and unrelated tactics; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q49776/spec.json