Talk:Strike pay

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Strike Pay is a part of Strike Fund, article should be reversed

A long, long time ago the pages Strike Pay and Strike Fund were merged where the Fund became a subheading of Pay. I wholeheartedly disagree with that 2006 merge approach and support revising the main title to Strike Fund instead of Strike Pay. While Strike Funds do pay out Strike Pay when needed, and that can be a large component of the funds, they also have a huge life outside of that one aspect.

Strike Funds coffers are mostly collected in regular work times and often play an outsized role in union negotiations as a material basis for a strike threat before a strike. When contract negotiations are reported, the size of the fund often gets reported too. Unions collect solidarity donations into the funds from the community outside to support strikes after they're announced, so Strike Funds are often highly visible while the Pay is more private and individual to each member. And Strike Fund money not only goes toward Strike Pay, but also loans and grants to members, and sometimes it just goes to material things on the picket line like food or strike benefit events.

There are also Employer Strike Insurance Funds that act in the opposite way, materially helping companies recoup losses during strike actions.

So Strike Funds are a larger conceptual set than Strike Pay and this article would make more encyclopedic sense for readers if switched.

Mycoolsighman (talk) 19:43, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]