Talk:Strike fund

Merge Strike fund and Strike pay

I don't know which is the better title, but I think these two should be merged. They both cover very similar territory, and would benefit from the being together.--Bookandcoffee 22:15, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

I wholeheartedly disagree with this merge and support un-merging them, or revising the main title to Strike Funds instead of Pay. While Strike Funds do pay Strike Pay when needed, the funds have a huge life outside of that.

Strike Funds are giant coffers collected through dues in regular work times and often play an outsized role in union negotiations as a material basis for a strike threat before a strike. Unions collect solidarity donations into the funds from the community outside to support strikes when they're announced, so Strike Funds are often more visible, at least in the US, than the pay. And Fund money not only goes to Strike Pay, but also loans and grants to members, and sometimes it just goes to material things on the ground like food for strikers and 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 Mycoolsighman (talk) 19:21, 17 July 2023 (UTC)