Portal:Organized Labour
Introduction
- In trade unions, workers campaign for higher wages, better working conditions and fair treatment from their employers, and through the implementation of labour laws, from their governments. They do this through collective bargaining, sectoral bargaining, and when needed, strike action. In some countries, co-determination gives representatives of workers seats on the board of directors of their employers.
- workers' party.
- Though historically less prominent, the cooperative movement campaigns to replace capitalist ownership of the economy with worker cooperatives, consumer cooperatives, and other types of cooperative ownership. This is related to the concept of economic democracy.
The labour movement developed as a response to
social housing and common ownership. (Full article...
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A business union is a type of trade union that is opposed to class or revolutionary unionism and has the principle that unions should be run like businesses.
Business unions are believed to be of American origin, and the term has been applied in particular to phenomena characteristic of American unions. This idea originated over the court's[which?] difficulty when regulating worker's industrial rights, specifically following the decades after the Civil War. Hyman (1973) attributed the term "business unionism" to Hoxie, but Michael Goldfield (1987) notes that the term was in common usage before Hoxie published in 1915.
Eugene Debs often referred to as the "old unionism". (Full article...
)June in Labor History
Significant dates in labour history.
- June 01 - Matthew Woll died; the United Farm Workers conducted its first strike in 1966 in Texas; the Cananea strike began in 1906in Mexico
- June 02 - During the 1952 steel strike, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer; the Child Labor Amendment was adopted by the U.S. Congress; Charles Moyerdied
- child labor laws; Victor G. Reuther died; Emmanuel Christopher Loblackdied
- June 04 - The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers affiliated with the CIO; Lou Cunninghamwas born
- California Agricultural Labor Relations Actbecame law
- died
- June 07 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee was founded; the Matignon Agreements ended a general strike in 1936 in France; John Willcockdied
- was born
- June 09 - R. J. Thomaswas born
- June 10 - The U.S. Supreme Court decided Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co.; Frank Hayes died
- Federación Sindical de Trabajadores Mineros de Bolivia was founded; José Bovéwas born
- June 12 - The 1981 Major League Baseball strike began in the U.S. and Canada; Philip Vera Cruz died
- June 13 - Israel Kugler was born; Tony Mazzocchi was born
- June 14 - 1911 Liverpool general transport strike began in the U.K.; government troops triggered the 2006 Oaxaca protests in Mexico
- June 15 - The Metal Trades Department, AFL–CIO was founded
- June 16 - Dave Beck was born
- June 18 - Battle of Ballantyne Pier occurred in Canada in 1935; the Battle of Orgreave occurred in 1984 in the U.K.
- June 19 - Nelson Cruikshank died; John W. Brown died; Tanong Po-arn disappeared
- June 20 - The American Railway Union was founded; Jim Bacon died; Evelyn Dubrow died; Alphonse Verville died
- June 21 - Nelson Cruikshank was born; the Herrin massacre occurred in 1922 in the U.S.; the U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Congress of Industrial Organizations; the "Molly Maguires" were hanged in the U.S.; Frank Drozak died
- June 22 - Riots occurred during the Grunwick dispute in 1976 in the U.K.; Paul Hall died; the U.S. Supreme Court decided Burlington Northern Railway v. White; the Sheffield Trades and Labour Council was founded; John Marius Trana was born
- June 23 - The Taft–Hartley Act became law in the U.S.
- June 24 - Terence V. Powderly died, Agnes Nestor was born
- June 25 - Winnipeg general strike of 1919 ended; the Smith–Connally Act became law in the U.S.
- June 26 - Timothy D. Murphy died; the Alliance of Concerned Teachers was formed; John W. Brown died; Emma Miller was born
- June 27 - The 1949 Australian coal strike began; the Industrial Workers of the World was founded; the Bureau of Labor Statistics was formed in the U.S.
- Labor Day in the U.S.; Alfred Miodowicz was born; Vere Birddied
- U.S. Supreme Court decided Communications Workers of America v. Beck
- June 30 - Former labor union official Tomiichi Murayama became Prime Minister of Japan
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- ... that Sting wrote "We Work the Black Seam" because he felt that "the case for coal was never put to the nation" during the 1984–85 British miners' strike, which began 40 years ago today?
- ... that the murder of Luisa Lallana sparked a general strike in Rosario, Argentina?
- ... that Surinamese trade unionist Louis Doedel was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital by the governor-general for 43 years?
- ... that the 1913 Studebaker strike is regarded as the first major labor strike in the automotive industry?
- ... that in 1969, the first women's strike for equal pay in the Netherlands was called in a cigar factory in Nieuwe Pekela?
- ... that up to 129,000 Canadian federal workers went on strike?
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Illustration from the Brisbane Worker newspaper condemning the brutality of the1912 Brisbane General Strike. -
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Exaggerated 19th century engraving showing flames and smoke following theHaymarket riot. -
Picket signs at the2007 Writers Guild of America strike. -
Strike leaders at thePaterson silk strike of 1913. From left, Patrick Quinlan, Carlo Tresca, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Adolph Lessig, and Bill Haywood. -
Crowd gathered outside old City Hall during the Winnipeg general strike, June 21, 1919. -
Protesters barricade the street on June 22 during the 2006 Oaxaca protests. -
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on strike in 2006 outside Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. -
Shields used byHomestead Strikein 1892. -
Barges set ablaze by steelworkers during the Homestead strike in 1892. -
Breaker boys, child laborers, working in a U.S. coal mine in 1911. -
Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, and his wife, circa 1908. -
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The front page of the Union Record on theSeattle General Strike of 1919. -
Chicago, Illinois, during the Pullman Strikein 1894. -
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones. -
Union membersNLRB rulings outside the agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters in November 2007. -
Rally in Dhaka, organized by Jatiyo Nari Shramik Trade Union Kendra (National Women Workers Trade Union Centre), an organization affiliated with the Bangladesh Trade Union Kendra. -
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Union members march in Argentina on Human Rights Day in December 2005. The signs read "Worker rights are human rights.. -
AFL–CIOfrom 1924 to 1952. -
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Albert Shanker. -
Public and Commercial Services Union members on strike in Manchester 2006. -
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Members of the United Steelworkers in Ohio phone bank other union members to educate them about critical issues in the 2008 election in the U.S. -
AFL–CIO unions protest outside Verizon headquarters in Philadelphiausing a giant inflatable rat. -
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York) notice of subway closure during the 2005 New York City transit strike. -
The2006 labour protests in France. -
United Mine Workers, confers with Thomas Kennedy (left), UMW Secretary-Treasurer of the UMW, and a UMW official at the War Labor Boardin 1943 about a coal miners' strike. -
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Union elections with an illegal firing, 1951 to 2007. -
National Federation of Federal Employees officials sign a collective bargaining agreement with the U.S. 8th Army in October 2002. -
Camp put up by strikingPepsi-Cola workers, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, 2008. -
Detail of monument to theReesor Siding Strike of 1963. -
United Mine Workers of America poster circa 1902. -
Memorial marker for theBay View Tragedy. -
AnAFL–CIO protest of Rite Aid, with Rev. Mark Reisinger (Pastor of Grace United Methodist Church in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania), Bill George, and Richard Bloomingdale. -
Lewis Hine's 1920 image "Power house mechanic working on steam pump," which shows a working class young American man with wrench in hand, hunched over, surrounded by the machinery that defines his work. -
Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934. -
Former headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 900 15th Street NW, Washington, D.C., in 200. -
Lawrence textile strikein 1912. -
Knights of Labor Grand Master Workman Terence V. Powderly. -
Mounted police chase demonstrators through Vancouver's East End during the Battle of Ballantyne Pier in 1935. -
Striking workers march moments before the Swedish military opened fire, killing five workers during the Ådalen shootings. -
The Western Federation of Miners' famous flyer entitled "Is Colorado in America?". -
Political cartoon about theCoal Strike of 1902from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. -
During World War II, a female aircraft worker checks electrical assemblies at the Vega Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California. -
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Cripple Creek, Colo., under martial law, during the 1894 strike. -
Big Bill Haywood, a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World. -
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Strike sign used by theGerman national rail strike of 2007. -
TheLudlow massacre monument located in Ludlow, Colorado, United States. -
Empty Gare du Nord train station during the November 2007 strikes in France. -
Armed vigilantesdeport striking copper miners during the Bisbee Deportationin Bisbee, Arizona, July 12, 1917.
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The hospital strikers have demonstrated that you don't get a job done unless you show the Man you're not afraid...If you're not willing to pay that price, then you don't deserve the rewards or benefits that go along with it."
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Did you know
- ...that before Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the United Teachers of New Orleans was the largest trade unionin the city?
- ... that Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Irving Brown was dubbed "The Most Dangerous Man" by Time in 1952?
- ... that AFL–CIOCode of Ethical Practices?
Topics
- Labour (economics)
- Labour and employment law
- Labour Timeline
- List of trade unions
- List of federations of trade unions
- List of strikes
- Labor Unions: International comparisons
- International Trade Union Confederation
- World Federation of Trade Unions
- International Workers' Association
- Industrial Workers of the World
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