Wikipedia:WikiProject Organized Labour/Online edit-a-thon Tech February 2021

This is the online Wikipedia edit-a-thon organised by Berlin chapter of Tech Workers Coalition to improve coverage of Trade unions, Works councils and Labour disputes in the technology sector. Two of several Wiki Projects relevant to this are WP:LABOR and WP:TECHNOLOGY.

Last February 2020, NYC Chapter of Tech Workers Coalition organized an edit-a-thon which you can find here: Meetup/NYC/Tech Workers Coalition NYC. There is another event that overlaps shortly after this one featuring African Americans in STEM: Meetup/DC/African Americans in STEM Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon.

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[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41149442?seq=1 Trade Unions in Indian IT Industry? Journal]
 * Amazon worker organization
 * Black history in Tech/Labour
 * Another Wikimedia Edit-a-thon is happening shortly after Meetup/DC/African Americans in STEM Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon.
 * National Black Workers Alliance of IBM see
 * IBM racism in 1970's
 * Polaroid corporation fought South African apartheid
 * Communication Workers of America
 * NewsGuild-CWA (journalists at paper and digital media,
 * List of NewsGuild-CWA Locals
 * CODE-CWA
 * Glitch (company)
 * Alphabet (company), Alphabet Workers Union
 * Blue State Digital
 * Medium (website) Draft:Medium Workers Union
 * Washington Alliance of Technology Workers CWA Local 37083 (not to be mixed up with Technology Alliance), Microsoft organizing,
 * Office and Professional Employees International Union
 * Kickstarter United union
 * New 1010 Tech Workers campaign press release
 * Unionen Swedish a White-collar worker union
 * Google worker organization
 * Platform economy
 * ✅ Short-time working short time work in Germany, especially re Covid-19 regulations
 * Unionization in the tech sector
 * Australia
 * Professionals Australia (PA) union push to organise Google workers
 * Game Workers Unite Australia also partners with PA
 * Denmark add PROSA, first IT union in Denmark
 * Ireland Unions not engaging tech companies in 2016 Googlers in Ireland content moderators for Facebook demand work from home
 * India
 * NDLF-IT Wing New Democratic Labour Front-IT (active in Tamil Nadu and Puduchery)
 * Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers source
 * All India Gig Workers Union platform economy
 * Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees Union (KITU), affiliated with Centre of Indian Trade Unions, an affiliate of Communist Party of India (Marxist) official website article from 2017
 * All India IT And ITES Employees' Union
 * Union of IT & ITES Employees (UNITE) also Tamil Nadu based
 * Forum For IT Employees formed in Tamil Nadu
 * Global
 * UNI Global Union, mention Information, Communication, Technologies and Services sector, as well as Commerce (Amazon), and existing Global Framework Agreements, e.g. with Orange S.A., Teleperformance etc..
 * Sweden: Unionen Swedish White-collar worker union
 * United Kingdom 
 * Members of LondonTech Workers Coalition form United Tech and Allied Workers branch in the UK union Communication Workers Union (United Kingdom)
 * Add Prospect (trade union) Tech Workers Edinburgh press release
 * Add Unite the union and Google, Arm Ltd. organizing
 * Wapping dispute (historical event sources)
 * Works council

Mention labor activism

 * ✅ Babbel
 * ✅ Native Instruments
 * Bosch.io, a subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH elected Works council and made collective bargaining agreement
 * Zalando had contentious works council election
 * ✅ N26 mention newly elected Works council's
 * In Tech union or Communications Workers of America
 * Mention LaneTix union organizing drive
 * Unsuccessful union drive of npm (software) with International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers
 * Video game Paradox Interactive signed collective bargaining agreement with Swedish Unionen
 * Polaroid corporation fought South African apartheid
 * IBM racism in 1970's and IBM and the Holocaust

Translate from existing article in other language

 * Workers' Initiative -- Polish anarcho-syndicalist union active in Amazon fulfillment centers in Poznan
 * Works council (expand from German content)
 * Deutsche Wohnen mention Deutsch Wohnen Eintegnen! campaign on English wiki

List of articles to create

 * ✅ Crunch- see
 * Crunch time (video gaming) already exists as a redirect for Video_game_developer). Could this search interface be improved/wikilinked better? If it were to become its own article, you could edit this directly, so all the wikilinks are preserved.
 * National Black Workers Alliance of IBM see
 * Tech worker
 * Works Constitution Act - The laws defining Works council in Germany, see the legal text here
 * All WP:RED links in Codetermination in Germany
 * Low skilled, Skilled working class and other variants could redirect to Skill (labor) or skilled worker. Should provide historic usage of term/concept and wage suppression.
 * clarify distinction between members-only unionism and solidarity unionism
 * Ubisoft worker organization
 * Gesamtmetall (Metal/electric sector of Confederation of German Employers' Associations)
 * ✅ Metal Workers Alliance of the Philippines (MWAP)
 * ✅ Confederation of Thai Electrical Appliances, Electronic Automobile & Metalworkers (TEAM)
 * Belarusian Radio and Electronic Industry Workers' Union
 * ✅ tech worker, tech worker on Wikitionary (both EN and IT)

Platform economy

 * Berlin based Free Workers' Union FAU Deliver Union (Deliveroo, Foodora and now Lieferando/Wolt)
 * Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain River Roovolt and other gig platforms
 * Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers source
 * All India Gig Workers Union
 * Transportation Driver and Online Services Association Indonesia
 * Rideshare Drivers United (California)
 * 2019 Lyft and Uber drivers' strikes
 * 2020 California Proposition 22

Berlin specific

 * IG Metall Berlin Brandenburg Sachsen The Berlin, Brandenburg, Sachsen regional office of IG Metall
 * Berlin Vs Amazon

Italian Wikipedia

 * ✅ it:Alphabet Workers Union
 * ✅ it:Organizzazione dei dipendenti di Amazon
 * ✅ it:Medium Workers Union (deleted shortly after)
 * ✅ it:Game Workers Unite (deleted shortly after)
 * ✅ it:Union busting

Stubs

 * "Stubs" - very short articles in need of expansion: Category:Stub-Class organized labour articles

Conclusion
Our Edit-a-thon has come to an end and we had a very fruitful past few days! For some people it was their first time ever editing on Wikimedia. We made a number of edits across English Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, German Wikipedia and even Wikidata, Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons.

It was a very positive experience, and many of us agreed a single weekend is not enough. We will commit to staying involved in WikiProject Organized Labour and found new WikiProjects for Labour in Wikis where it does not exist yet.

Summary
We made a number of edits across English Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, German Wikipedia and even Wikidata, Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons.

12 participants worked together to make 300+ edits, 62 references across 64 articles including 21 new ones. Outreach dashboard source.

While it was an overall positive experience, we also had hiccups including getting Zoom bombed by racist trolls, and dealing with immediate deletions of articles for various reasons. In Italian Wikipedia, an editor is arguing that Amazon worker organization has no encyclopedic value! See the discussion at it:Discussione:Organizzazione dei dipendenti di Amazon.

On a more (data) structural front, join the talk page discussion Template_talk:Infobox company on how to better reflect trade union representation in Wikipedia's Template:Infobox company!

Participants
Please also add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row). By signing up, you agree to have your edits tracked between February 19-21 to measure progress, which is visible from this dashboard

Organization and individuals

 * Tech Workers Coalition (Berlin, Italy, NYC)
 * Shushugah (talk) 18:30, 16 January 2021 (UTC) (Wiki-edit-a-thon organizer)
 * Zarasophos (talk) 21:36, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk; please &#123;&#123;ping&#125;&#125; me in replies) 18:02, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * czar 16:38, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * — Wingedserif (talk) 19:14, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Jim.henderson (talk) 17:37, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Gradient-descending (talk) 18:38, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
 * The Kernel in Yellow (User talk:The_Kernel_in_Yellow) 16:46, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Firegloves (User talk:Firegloves) 16:50, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Logistics

 * Date and time: February 19-21 2021
 * Location: Online
 * Zoom: At 12PM EST // 18:00 CET each day (February 19,20,21) there will be a live Zoom call you can hop in
 * Register: Create your Wikipedia account here or log into Wikipedia if you already have an account.
 * Facebook RSVP in event
 * External link Berlin Tech Workers Coalition

Code of Conduct
This online event and Berlin Tech Workers Coalition events follows the Berlin Code of Conduct available in English, German, Polish and other languages.