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"text": "Which workers, employers or organisations advance or oppose each issue, and which are affected without being parties?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "affected-and-contesting-groups-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the asserted employment relationships and constituency boundaries?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "affected-and-contesting-groups-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandates-and-settlement-authority", "name": "Mandates and settlement authority", "description": "Distinguishes representation claims from documented authority to take particular steps.", "findings": [ { "id": "issue-specific-representative-mandate", "name": "Issue-specific representative mandate", "description": "Record the source, scope, duration and challenges to a representative's mandate, including any required ratification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who authorised each representative, for which constituency and issues, and through what recorded process?", "kind": "provenance", "id": 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Voluntary Conciliation and Arbitration Recommendation, 1951", "International Labour Organization Convention No. 154: Collective Bargaining Convention, 1981" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of labor dispute this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Classifying disagreements for grievance procedures, collective bargaining, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, or adjudication", "Determining which institution or procedure has authority to address an employment conflict", "Negotiating wages, hours, staffing, benefits, and workplace protections", "Recording industrial conflict and its effects on workers, employers, and production" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of labor dispute this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Dispute duration", "typical_range": "No universal typical range; opening and closure criteria must be specified", "unit": "calendar days" }, { "quantity": "Workers involved", "typical_range": "One to many thousands; direct and indirect involvement may be counted differently", "unit": "workers" }, { "quantity": "Working time lost through associated stoppages", "typical_range": "Zero for disputes without stoppages; otherwise context dependent", "unit": "worker-days" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of labor dispute this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Escalation into prolonged stoppages, lost earnings, or interrupted services", "Retaliation, discriminatory treatment, or interference with worker representation", "Violence or intimidation during confrontation", "Procedural delay or unequal bargaining power preventing effective resolution", "Treating strike statistics as a measure of all disputes, thereby excluding conflicts without work stoppages" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of labor dispute this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Legal definitions and available remedies vary by jurisdiction, employment status, and public- or private-sector coverage.", "Some systems distinguish sharply between rights disputes handled through adjudication and interest disputes handled through bargaining or conciliation.", "Recognition procedures, strike restrictions, and compulsory dispute-resolution arrangements differ, particularly for public services and essential services." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of labor dispute this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Strike", "difference": "A strike is a concerted withholding of labor; a labor dispute can exist without any strike." }, { "name": "Lockout", "difference": "A lockout is an employer-initiated exclusion or withholding of work used in industrial conflict; the dispute is the underlying disagreement." }, { "name": "Collective bargaining", "difference": "Collective bargaining is a process for negotiating employment terms; it can prevent, generate, or resolve a dispute." }, { "name": "Grievance", "difference": "A grievance is a complaint raised through an employment relationship or procedure; it may become a dispute when contested or unresolved." }, { "name": "Workplace interpersonal conflict", "difference": "Personal disagreement alone is insufficient; a labor dispute concerns employment relations, rights, representation, or working terms." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of labor dispute this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which reference definitions 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