Talk:Labour movement

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As my edits have been reverted once, I will justify them here. (Indedented is text I removed.)

(like trade unions)

They are mentioned in the next sentence, no need to mention them here.

"in response to the employers

vs. "vis-a-vis employers". "In response to" means that the labor movement is only reactionary, and never stakes out positions of its own. This is incorrect.

"socialist"

Not all supporters of the labor movement are socialists.

"green revolution"

At least according to our Wikipedia article, the green revolution refers specifically to a period starting in 1944.

The continuing effort, throughout failures and successes, of the global labour movement, to support, through activism, a fair and equal workplace for everyone in the world community benefits society as a whole.

Without prejudice as to the accuracy of this, many people would disagree and it cannot be proven, so we can't include it as is.

DanKeshet

[edit] Labour and labor

Wondering if we cant just agree to Labour as a Wikipedia standard when referring to any Labour movement topics. Labor can perhaps still be an optional spelling for non-political usage. -Ste|vertigo 00:12, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Don't think it makes a difference. People can spell it however they like, since both are intelligible to both Commonwealth and American speakers. BTW, I added the American spelling in parentheses at the top, since it seemed silly to me to have it as a footnote. Most other articles put alternate spellings in the first paragraph. 208.61.5.123 01:15, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

• I think this speaks to the larger issue of whether to use European English spellings or American spellings. While most sources have a bit easier job of it (being published on one side of the pond or the other) wikipedia recieves contributions from many countries and faces a bit of a challenge from that. I'd say someone higher up should probably make one dialect the standard for international issues at least. --72.93.180.55 23:12, 11 December 2006 (UTC)