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connection is outside this model.", "Routine absenteeism or operational disruption without evidence of coordinated pressure is outside this model.", "The full legal proceedings or emergency response triggered by an action are outside this model.", "Employer lockouts are outside this worker-led sense of industrial action." ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Look for evidence that changed work participation or related conduct is intended to exert collective pressure over an employment-related dispute; disruption alone is insufficient.", "Identify the employment connection between participants, demands and targets, recording contested cases such as solidarity action and political strikes.", "Distinguish action from ordinary bargaining by an announced or enacted pressure tactic affecting work, access to work or associated operations.", "Distinguish coordinated work-to-rule or overtime refusal from ordinary compliance or individual unavailability through evidence of shared intent and 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identifies who could resolve the dispute." }, { "name": "Mandate status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Proposed; consultation underway; authorisation claimed; authorisation evidenced; contested; withdrawn; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates participation, organisational endorsement and evidence of authority." }, { "name": "Operational phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Threatened; announced; active; suspended; resumed; ended; cancelled", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about notices, service planning and negotiation timing." }, { "name": "Participation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons participating and percentage of an explicitly defined eligible workforce, by period and site", "why_it_matters": "Shows the extent of mobilisation without confusing membership, eligibility and actual participation." }, { "name": "Work time withheld or prevented", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Worker-hours or worker-days, with calculation method and 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expected disruption and unresolved constraints.", "Track announced and actual action across sites, shifts and participating groups.", "Identify evidence needed before escalation, suspension or resumption can be assessed.", "Evaluate settlement against original demands and monitor implementation commitments." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain what industrial action is and the legal rules that govern it in general terms.", "Report strikes and their causes from sourced news, giving both sides.", "Point workers and employers to unions, advisory or conciliation services." ], "must_not": [ "Act as a replacement worker to break a lawful strike.", "Identify or blacklist workers for taking part in industrial action.", "Present advice on a specific dispute as legal advice.", "Spread false claims about either side to influence a dispute." ], "requires_human": [ "Any action that affects workers' jobs or pay during a dispute.", "Deciding whether essential services must continue during a strike." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "The right to strike protects workers' bargaining power, and undermining it shifts power unfairly.", "Strikes in essential services can affect people who are not party to the dispute." ], "affected_parties": [ "Workers and unions", "Employers", "Service users and the public" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The workers and unions taking part; labour authorities regulate it.", "master_systems": [] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Retaliation and dismissal of striking workers.", "Harm to vulnerable people when essential services stop.", "Escalation into confrontation at picket lines." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, United Nations, Article 8, which recognizes the right to strike.", "Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), International Labour Organization." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Industrial action occurs in employment disputes over matters such as pay, working conditions, staffing and collective bargaining.", "Workers and their representatives use collective withdrawal or restriction of work to exert pressure, while employers and service planners assess its operational consequences." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "Industrial action cannot be reliably identified visually because a work stoppage or gathering does not by itself establish a collective employment dispute." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q628191: industrial action", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q628191", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Industrial action", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_action", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "dispute-and-classification", "name": "Dispute and classification", "description": "Establishes why the episode is treated as industrial action and what employment dispute it expresses.", "rationale": "Neither workplace disruption nor a participant's label alone establishes the model's boundary.", "layers": [ { "id": "industrial-action-boundary", "name": "Industrial action boundary", "description": "Tests inclusion against explicit definitions and neighbouring forms of conduct.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-and-competing-accounts", "name": "Classification and competing accounts", "description": "Record the definition used, its holder and evidence supporting or contesting inclusion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Under whose definition does this conduct qualify as industrial action, and what observable features satisfy that definition?", "kind": "definition", "id": "classification-and-competing-accounts-q01" }, { "text": "Is the episode disputed as a lockout, political protest, solidarity action, individual refusal or ordinary operational disruption?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "classification-and-competing-accounts-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "demands-and-pressure-targets", "name": "Demands and pressure targets", "description": "Connects the disputed employment issues to the intended mechanism of pressure.", "findings": [ { "id": "demand-target-fit", "name": "Demand and target fit", "description": "Identify the demands, their proponents and the parties whose decisions could satisfy them.", "questions": [ { "text": "What demands prompted the action, and which participant statements or dispute records establish them?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "demand-target-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Who can grant each demand, and how is disruption intended to influence that party?", "kind": "action", "id": "demand-target-fit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "participants-and-mandate", "name": "Participants and mandate", "description": "Describes who acts collectively and who can speak 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"description": "Tracks the basis and limits of decisions to begin, change or end action.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-and-decision-rights", "name": "Mandate and decision rights", "description": "Separate evidence of collective support from authority to commit participants to particular decisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What vote, meeting, organising process or other evidence establishes support for this particular tactic and period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "mandate-and-decision-rights-q01" }, { "text": "Who may announce escalation, suspend action or accept a settlement, and what further participant approval is required?", "kind": "action", "id": "mandate-and-decision-rights-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tactics-and-operational-course", "name": "Tactics and operational course", "description": "Captures what participants change about work and how the action develops over time.", "rationale": "Industrial action may be partial, intermittent or selective, so a single strike 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"description": "Track notices, actual start and end times, interruptions and changes of tactic.", "questions": [ { "text": "When and where was action announced and observed, including partial shifts, rolling stoppages and suspensions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "announced-and-observed-course-q01" }, { "text": "What stated conditions trigger escalation, resumption or cancellation, and who decides whether they have been met?", "kind": "action", "id": "announced-and-observed-course-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "constraints-and-conduct", "name": "Constraints and conduct", "description": "Records the rules and operational arrangements relevant to particular acts within the episode.", "rationale": "The status of a mandate, stoppage, picket or employer response may differ and must be assessed separately.", "layers": [ { "id": "applicable-rules-and-procedures", "name": "Applicable rules and procedures", "description": "Locates procedural and legal assessments in their jurisdiction, date and 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"scale-and-attributable-effects", "name": "Scale and attributable effects", "description": "Separate participation estimates from work loss and wider effects attributed to the action.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many workers participated and how much work time was withheld or prevented, using which denominator and counting method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "scale-and-attributable-effects-q01" }, { "text": "Which service or production changes can be attributed to the action, and which may reflect employer responses or unrelated conditions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "scale-and-attributable-effects-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "bargaining-and-closure", "name": "Bargaining and closure", "description": "Relates negotiations and cessation of action to the original demands and implementation obligations.", "findings": [ { "id": "settlement-and-unresolved-demands", "name": "Settlement and unresolved demands", "description": "Record agreed terms, acceptance, outstanding issues and 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"evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The intended registry sense is assumed to be employment-related collective action.", "Whether lockouts, political action or particular forms of protest count as industrial action depends on the analytical or legal definition.", "This is recalled knowledge without source verification; current legal requirements and statistical counting conventions require jurisdiction-specific checking." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of industrial action this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Strike: collective withdrawal of labour", "Work-to-rule: strict 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Bargaining Convention: addresses protection against anti-union discrimination and promotion of collective bargaining.", "National labour legislation and judicial decisions govern matters such as ballots, notice, legal protection and restrictions on industrial action.", "Collective agreements may establish dispute procedures or no-strike commitments, with enforceability depending on the jurisdiction." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of industrial action 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": [ "Applying bargaining pressure over pay, working hours, staffing and employment conditions", "Resisting redundancies, workplace restructuring or changes to contracts", "Seeking union recognition or defending collective bargaining arrangements", "Supporting workers in another dispute through solidarity action", "Protesting employment-related government policies" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of industrial action 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": "Workers involved", "typical_range": "No universal typical range; depends on the dispute and counting rules", "unit": "workers" }, { "quantity": "Working time lost", "typical_range": "No universal typical range; chiefly used for strikes and lockouts", "unit": "worker-days or worker-hours" }, { "quantity": "Duration of action", "typical_range": "May extend from part of a shift to prolonged or intermittent action", "unit": "hours or days" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of industrial action 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": [ "Loss of earnings for workers and loss of output or revenue for employers", "Disruption of public services and supply chains, with possible safety consequences in essential services", "Dismissal, disciplinary action or legal liability where applicable protections do not cover the action", "Escalation into prolonged conflict, intimidation or violence", "Failure to secure concessions because participation, bargaining power or agreement on demands is insufficient" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of industrial action 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": [ "Some statistical and industrial-relations usages include strikes and lockouts, while other usages primarily denote worker action.", "Legal protection varies with jurisdiction, sector, purpose, participants and procedural requirements.", "Treatment of public-sector strikes, solidarity action and political strikes differs substantially between jurisdictions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of industrial action 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 withdraws labour; industrial action also encompasses restrictions on work that do not stop it entirely." }, { "name": "Labour dispute", "difference": "A labour dispute is the underlying disagreement; it can exist without industrial action." }, { "name": "Collective bargaining", "difference": "Collective bargaining is negotiation over employment relations; industrial action applies pressure and may accompany negotiation." }, { "name": "Picketing", "difference": "Picketing involves presence at or near a workplace to communicate or persuade; it can accompany industrial action but is not itself necessarily a withdrawal or restriction of work." }, { "name": "Individual refusal to work", "difference": "An individual refusal need not be collective or dispute-related and may instead concern personal circumstances or immediate safety." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which 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