Event:WikiProject Organized Labour Month Online Campaign

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From 1–30 September 2026, a month long online community editing event dedicated to all topics covered under WikiProject Organized Labour including strike actions, trade unions, labor law, union busting etc..

This edit-a-thon is inspired by the Wiki Workers United campaign and shows its solidarity by improving coverage of union-related topics across the different wiki projects in a policy compliant manner.

Add your project

You can collaborate here, or create a local page for your local wiki project, in order to foster participation. Add it here or Let Shushugah or Femke know, so we can keep track of contributions you make.

Translate and improvements

Each project page focuses on what it wishes to improve. Some suggestions below for all wiki projects are:

labor union (Q178790)

Wikimedia and unions (Q140843686) (aka Wiki Workers United)
NLRB election procedures (Q6954662) (US specific)
Employee Free Choice Act (Q5374272) / Protecting the Right to Organize Act (Q106154019)- 🇺🇸 US legislation
tech union (Q104450077)
Unionization in the nonprofit sector (Q140818722)
en:Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (expand from redirect)
Union recognition (needs wikidata item and to connect all national legislation)
- en:Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC v. NLRB (2023 decision mentioned in en:National Labor Relations Board, en:Joy Silk
- en:Precontract union (before a US union has a en:collective agreement they still have en:Weingarten rights)
- en:Recognition strike (expand from redirect)
Communication Workers Union (Q5154122) (United Kingdom)
- Create Wikidata item and article for en:United Tech and Allied Workers (digital branch of CWU)
Communications Workers of America (Q5154183)
- CODE-CWA (Q105043756) digital campaign within CWA
Category:Trade unions by country (Q6950822) - 🌎 Globalize
Card check (Q2938020) 🇺🇸 US
Wall to wall (entire workplace represented in a union)
en:Global unions in general sense, not Global Unions (Q3108971)™️

union busting (Q3456341)

en:Union avoidance industry -- (globalized) No distinct Wikidata item found
Littler Mendelson (Q6653038) -- union avoidance law firm retained by WMF
Jones Day (Q6275191) -- law firm retained by WMF for trademark protection. They also engage in union-busting.
union busting (Q3456341) -- legal and illegal forms
captive audience meeting (Q112968547) / a US legal term for mandatory meetings
Unfair labor practice (Q7884306) 🇺🇸 US

Labor concept and structures

Community unionism (Q5155074) - more language versions needed beyond en+fa
supervisory board (Q759969) / board of directors (Q188628) -- Globally distinct legal terms that refer to overlapping responsibilities
en:Structure test
en:Power resources approach (create Wikidata item)
en:Disruption cost (closely related to Cost of delay (Q5174785)
Q56317136 (Q56317136) fr:Dérive de la mission (expand in french and translate)
Acas (Q4672158) british mediation services
Employer of Record (Q131191557)
- joint employment (Q17093523) create global version - how is joint employment applied in different countries?

Sources:

Category:Labor studies scholars (Q8579477)

Chris Riddell (Q137034223) redlinked (as of 2026-08-13) author of Union Certification Success under Voting versus Card-Check Procedures: Evidence from British Columbia, 1978–1998 (Q141036606)
Kate Bronfenbrenner (Q6375392) only on enwiki (as of 2026-08-13)

Tools to find articles to translate

For example: https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=fa&topic=Organized+Labour&importance=Any (replace fa with your language code). It works for any language except English.

Sources

Trade unions of the World