Wikipedia:WikiProject Organized Labour
Although there is a growing collection of Labour articles, there is a need to improve and widen the scope of Labour in general on Wikipedia. As well, currently there is very limited information on specific union organizations, and their representation within individual business/government bodies.
This project would seek to gather articles together, and organize efforts.
- To expand, and globalize, articles related to Organized Labour.
- To create and expand articles for individual Labour Organizations.
- To establish fair and consistent representation of Labour in business, government, and organizational articles.
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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
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Participants
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- --TriniSocialist
- --Bookandcoffee
- --Mattley
- --James S. 16:28, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
- --Jensen
- --Sjeraj 10:01, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
- --Breadandroses 20:23, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
- --Jmabel | Talk 03:29, 16 January 2006 (UTC): probably won't be hard-core on this, but I'll keep an eye out.
- --Fcendejas 20:47, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
- --metzerly
- --Warofdreams talk 12:08, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
- --JK the unwise 14:33, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- --Beth Wellington 22:54, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- --JerryOrr 21:34, 31 March 2006 (UTC): coincides with my interests in countering systemic bias
- --Robbie dee 18:22, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
- --Tim1965 00:07, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- --Dankru 10:04, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
- --Jobjörn 11:49, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
- --FrancisTyers 21:00, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
- --Hauser 09:41, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
- --AsaRoast 12:07, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
- --QajarCoffee 20:35, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
- --LukePeterson 18:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- --Musaabdulrashid 05:09, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- --Loyd
- --CarabinieriTTaallkk 11:03, 19 July 2006 (UTC) I'm currently working on the article about the IWW, will work on articles relating to other radical labor unions
- --Teacher Unionist 3:09, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
- --Nspeelman 23:24, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- --Golsztajn 5 September 2006 (UTC) new to wiki, old to the labour movement
- --Trachys 14:16, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
- --MarkDilley - started wiki with a friend. Been shouting about workers and wiki for quite some time now, happy that this initiative is taking off. Also working at AboutUs.org on the Labor Unions category. Wiki wiki strike!
{{User OrgLabour}} has been created for your user page. (See Template section for an example)
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Assessment Department
Organized labour articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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3 | 7 | 3 | 13 | |||
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2 | 2 | |||||
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1 | 10 | 20 | 74 | 4 | 109 | |
B | 26 | 77 | 278 | 233 | 38 | 652 | |
C | 35 | 120 | 331 | 600 | 1 | 193 | 1,280 |
Start | 34 | 221 | 849 | 1,907 | 722 | 3,733 | |
Stub | 18 | 353 | 932 | 1,317 | 820 | 3,440 | |
List | 3 | 7 | 15 | 47 | 2 | 9 | 83 |
Category | 2,499 | 2,499 | |||||
Disambig | 19 | 19 | |||||
File | 371 | 371 | |||||
Portal | 494 | 494 | |||||
Project | 60 | 60 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 9 | 46 | 46 | 130 | 232 | |
Template | 105 | 105 | |||||
Other | 1 | 12 | 13 | ||||
Assessed | 118 | 802 | 2,479 | 4,227 | 3,693 | 1,786 | 13,105 |
Unassessed | 2 | 76 | 78 | ||||
Total | 118 | 802 | 2,481 | 4,227 | 3,693 | 1,862 | 13,183 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 46,608 | Ω = 5.05 |
This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's trade union and organized labour articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
Labour Articles
This list was started with the articles in the {{Labor}} template. Please add other key labour articles - and comments relating to their status.
General articles
- Child labor
- Labor Unions: International comparisons
- Eight-hour day
- Labour (economics)
- Labour and employment law - {{merge from|Work permit}} tag on page
- Labour movement
- Labor rights
- Proletariat
- Issues & events timeline -This was previously a US timeline, so it could use more world-wide entries
- Trade unions - {{Globalize}} tag on page
- Strike action - {{limitedgeographicscope}} tag on page
- General strike
- List of strikes
- Syndicalism
- Social Movement Unionism
Country specific
- Labour and employment law in X - 5 countries
- Trade unions in X - 12 countries in a list of +190 (and 8 are stubs)
Labour Organizations
- Create articles found in list of trade unions
- Sort stubs - see #stub templates
As with the Labour Articles section above, this is a list of (unordered) pages that are foundational to Labour Organizations, and should be checked and improved to as high a quality as possible:
Labour representation
Undoubtedly, this project area will attract controversy. By its very nature, the relationship between Labour and management is often adversarial, and a source of conflict. Nevertheless, the two are linked, and it is difficult to discuss one without the other.
In this light, this project seeks to create a consensus for the inclusion of labour representation in the articles directly related to business, government, and employers. The sub page /Labour representation had been started to begin this process - with the creation of a NPOV infobox, and application standards.
Law
Aim to give basic information about every piece of law that had an important effect on Labour relations (starting with the red linked laws in articles).
- Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992
- Criminal Law Amendment Act 1871 doesn't seem to appear in List of Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament, 1860-1879
- Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 - {{UK-law-stub}} tag on the page.
- Norris-LaGuardia Act 1932
- Taft-Hartley Act - {{cleanup-date|February 2006}} tag on the page.
- Labour Relations Act 1995 (South Africa)
Tasks
See /open tasks.
Templates
Infoboxes
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions | |
File:Zctu logo.gif | |
Founded | February 28, 1981 |
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Affiliations | National Federation |
Website | www.zctu.co.zw |
Empty syntax at {{Infobox Union}}
For use on Trade Union pages.
Stub templates
- Labor dispute stubs - {{labor-dispute-stub}} - 30 on May 31
- Trade union stubs - {{Union-stub}} - 35 on May 31
- African trade union stubs - {{Africa-labor-org-stub}} - 165 on June 10
- Asian trade union stubs - {{Asia-labor-org-stub}} - 93 on June 10
- Indian trade union stubs - {{India-labor-org-stub}} - 65 on June 10
- European trade union stubs - {{Euro-labor-org-stub}} - 196 on June 10
- United Kingdom trade union stubs - {{UK-labour-org-stub}} - 63 on June 10
- North American trade union stubs - {{NorthAm-labor-org-stub}} - 110 on June 10
- United States labor union stubs - {{US-labor-org-stub}} - 66 on June 10
- Oceania trade union stubs - {{Oceania-labor-org-stub}} - 74 on June 10
- South American trade union stubs - {{SouthAm-labor-org-stub}} - 67 on June 10
- Worker's rights activist stubs - {{worker-activist-stub}} - 38 on June 10
Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Additional stubs should be discussed here, or proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals.
Other templates
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- To-do list.
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- For the user pages of project members.
- {{User OrgLabour}}
- {{Template:User OrgLabour}}
Categories
Lists
- List of strikes - possibly turn into a category at some point?
- List of trade unions -duh
Articles
Wikipedia articles
New Wikipedia articles related to Organized Labour
Please feel free to list your new Organized Labour -related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.
- Federation of Independent Trade Unions and Non-Governmental Organisations - Dave Smith 04:00, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Transport and Industrial Workers Union - Dave Smith 22:59, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
- National Association of Co-operative Officials - Martín (saying/doing) 12:00, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- National Workers' Union (Trinidad & Tobago) - 22nd August 2006
- Luisa Moreno--Rockero 17:27, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America --Rockero 00:51, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- Trade unions in South Africa - 07/12/06
- Featured in Did you know? on July 15, 2006
- John Calderwood - 07/08/06
- Pride at Work - 07/05/06
- Buffalo switchmen's strike - 07/03/06
- Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike - just a stub 07/03/06
- Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 - new article 07/02/06
- Featured in Did you know? on July 7, 2006
- Nominated for Good Article status on 07/06/06
- Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company - new article --QajarCoffee 08:55, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
- Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers - new (big) article 06/28/06
- Steel strike of 1919 - new article 06/27/06
- U.S. Steel Recognition Strike of 1901 - new article 06/27/06
- Dual unionism - Reviews and changes are welcome and appreciated! 06/26/06
- National Labor Board - no longer a stub 06/26/06
- Featured in Did you know? on June 29, 2006
- Homestead Strike - radically revamped, very comprehensive now! 06/25/06
- 2006 TTC wildcat strike - 06/10/06
- American Federation of Teachers - much expanded! 06/18/06
- Education Minnesota - revamped on 06/17/06
- Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - radically revamped! 06/16/06
- Free Workers' Union - 06/26/06 (I'm not part of the project but I thought you guys might be interested in the article anyway)
- Edward J. McElroy - added 06/09/06
- Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia - added 05/29/06
- Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 - added 05/22/06
- Featured in Did you know? on May 26, 2006
- London matchgirls strike of 1888 - added 05/19/06
- Featured in Did you know? on May 22, 2006
- New York State United Teachers - added 05/14/06
- Fred Bramley - added 13 May 06
- Edward T. Hanley - added 05/12/06
- Ann Twomey - added 05/11/06
- Health Professionals and Allied Employees - added 05/11/06
- Office and Professional Employees International Union - added 05/09/06
- International Typographical Union - added 05/02/06
- Ed Boyce - added 04/30/2006
- Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union - added 04/28/2006
- International Woodworkers of America - added 04/15/2006
- Brookwood Labor College - added 04/15/2006
- Workers' Education Bureau of America - added 04/15/2006
- Metal Trades Department of the AFL-CIO - added 04/13/2006
- Massachusetts AFL-CIO - added 04/13/2006
- International Molders and Foundry Workers Union of North America - added 04/13/2006
- John P. Frey - added 04/13/2006
- International Photo-Engravers Union of North America - added 04/02/2006
- Matthew Woll - added 03/27/2006
- National Association of Government Employees - added 12/03/2005
- Building Service Employees International Union - added 12/03/2005
Adopt an article
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.
- Example article: User:Example
Check Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne#Adopt an article to see how this section is used.