Puerto Rico
Organization responsible for the statistics
The statistics are collected and compiled by the Police
Department. The Bureau of Conciliation and Arbitration provides
monthly and daily reports to the Secretary of the Department of
Labor and Human Resources.
Objectives and users
Not available.
Coverage
Strikes and lockouts
The statistics cover:
- constitutional or official strikes
- unofficial strikes
- lockouts involving the participation of the Bureau of
Conciliation and Arbitration
- rotating or revolving strikes
- working to rule
- go-slows
- overtime bans
- sit-ins
- any type of strike in which the intervention of the Bureau of
Conciliation and Arbitration is sought, or in which the Bureau
participates in its solution.
Sympathetic strikes, political or protest strikes and general
strikes are not covered.
Minimum threshold
None.
Economic activities
No particular branches of economic activity are excluded.
Workers
Workers involved directly and workers involved indirectly. In
addition to regular paid employees, including part-time workers,
the statistics cover temporary, casual and seasonal workers.
Unpaid family workers and workers laid off are not covered.
No particular occupational groups are excluded.
Geographic areas
Whole country.
Types of data collected
- number of strikes and lockouts
- number of economic units involved
- number of workers involved
- duration
- time not worked
- matter in dispute
- outcome of dispute
- method of settlement
Concepts and definitions
Strike
A work stoppage by organized workers.
Lockout
A closing of facilities by the employer in order to leave out
organized workers from those facilities.
These are working definitions for statistical purposes.
Methods of measurement
Strikes and lockouts
The basic unit of measurement used to record a strike or lockout
is the economic unit. If a work stoppage is interrupted but
later resumes, still due to the same case of dispute, it is
considered as a new strike or lockout when it recommences.
Work stoppages due to the same case of dispute occurring
simultaneously in different establishments of the same enterprise
are counted as one strike or lockout. Those due to the same case
of dispute occurring simultaneously in establishments of
different enterprises are treated as different strikes or
lockouts. Work stoppages due to the same case of dispute
occurring at different times in different establishments of the
same or different enterprises are treated as different strikes or
lockouts.
Economic units involved
The economic unit is the firm together with the workers'
bargaining unit, defined as a firm with a specific unit of
organized workers if they are organized as such to bargain
collectively, or any firm with non-organized workers who act
collectively in a concerted way.
Workers involved
The number of workers involved is the highest number of workers
involved at any one moment during the strike or lockout.
Part-time workers are counted as individuals on the same basis as
full-time workers.
Duration
The duration is measured in workdays, from the date the strike or
lockout began to the date it ended in the particular firm.
Time not worked
The amount of time not worked, in workdays, is the product of the
number of workers involved and the duration. The shorter working
hours of part-time workers and overtime are not taken into
account in the estimate.
Classifications
Branch of economic activity
The data are classified according to branch of economic activity.
Other
- private or private sector
Reference period and periodicity
The statistics are compiled for periods of a quarter and a year.
They relate to strikes and lockouts ending during the reference
period.
Analytical measures
None.
Historical background of the series
Not available.
Documentation
Series available
Not available.
Bibliogrpahic references
None.
Data published by the ILO
The number of strikes and
lockouts, the number of workers involved and the number of days
not worked, by
economic activity.
Confidentiality
Not available.
International standards
Not available.
Methods of data collection
There is a legal obligation to report the occurrence of a strike.
For the strike to be legal, the trade union must give notice, a
specific period in advance, to the Bureau of Conciliation and
Arbitration, informing it that a dispute exists concerning the
negotiation of a bargaining agreement. A standard form is used
for this purpose. For other types of strike and for lockouts,
information is only collected if the Bureau of Conciliation and
Arbitration participates in its solution. The Police Department
receives information regarding all types of strike.