Draft:Strike Map

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• Comment: Remove upfront headers like 'aims' check WP:MOS for structure Pegnawl (talk) 20:05, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Daily Mail is an unreliable source. Two sources are also primary and I doubt source 5 has WP:SIGCOV of this organisation. Needs more sources. Rambley (talk) 10:29, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Strike Map is an organisation launched in December 2020.^[1]. It was co-founded by Robert Poole and Henry Fowler.^{[2] [3]} Working in partnership with the General Federation of Trade Unions,^[4] the project aims to detail the time and location of strike action^[5] and picket lines across the islands of Britain and Ireland on an interactive map.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Data about labour disputes collected by the Office for National Statistics in the UK was considered unsatisfactory by Robert Poole and Henry Fowler, who wanted to create a permanent record of strike action happening in Britain.^[12] In response to this, trade union activists began to collate and publish data on strikes and picket lines in the UK as part of a project called Strike Map.^[13] The lack of satisfactory data was exacerbated when during the coronavirus pandemic, the Office for National Statistics suspended the collection and publication of labour disputes data.^[14]. In September of 2025 Strike Map began to collaborate with the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data to enhance Strike Map's interactive maps with insights on areas undergoing industrial disputes.^[15][16][17]

Strike Map outlines four aims of the website:
1. Document and present the levels of strike action in the country.
2. Enable others to see the levels of action and pass on messages of solidarity.
3. Encourage other workers in their struggles.
4. Bring those leading struggles together through a network.^[18]

On 9 May 2025 Strike Map organised a megapicket at Lifford Lane Depot in solidarity with striking Unite workers taking part in the 2025 Birmingham bin strike.^[19] The picket was joined by workers from other trade unions. Speakers included Mick Whelan, General Secretary of ASLEF, Steve Wright, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, and Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the National Education Union.^[20]

On 25 July 2025 Strike Map organised a second megapicket across the five sites of Atlas Depot, Lifford Lane Depot, Perry Barr Depot, Ryton site in Coventry and Veolia Incinerator in solidarity with striking Unite workers taking part in the 2025 Birmingham bin strike.^[21]

On 30 January 2026 Strike Map organised a third megapicket in solidarity with striking Unite workers taking part in the 2025 Birmingham bin strike.^[22] Dubbed 'Megapicket 3-D'^[23] speakers included Steve Wright, Zarah Sultana, Eddie Dempsey, Mick Whelan, Caroline Hayhurst, Matt Wrack, Ed Harlow, Ian Hodson, Steven Wicks, John McDonnell, Zack Polanski, Paul W Fleming, and Tony Wilson.^[24]

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