I pounded my beat in the halls of Congress in my role as a trade union lobbyist, trying to win votes to hold back the antilabor tide. |
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We witness a communist leader addressing a trade union rally that is broken up by police. |
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Those trade union leaders should be calling action like Thursday's on an immense scale. |
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Noticeably absent from the Havana conference were trade union representatives from the USA and Canada. |
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You have to go back to 1976 to find pan-Canadian united action by the trade union movement. |
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The apparent rejection of collective action has lead to trade union membership remaining low. |
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So far the political radicalisation has pulled the trade union movement along in its wake. |
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He believes congress should now jump at the chance to make them welcome and enrich the trade union movement. |
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For example, in November 2000 it affiliated the three national trade union centres in the country. |
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Never before have trade union members who choose to affiliate to the Party been given the choice. |
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Many people without trade union affiliation were also on strike and on the streets. |
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Other trade union leaders were also rebuked and reprimanded, with some receiving kicks and punches. |
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The strongest party was the political wing of the famous Solidarity trade union which was so important in the fall of European communism. |
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To do this the trade union movement must develop a youthful edge that is about much more than recruitment figures. |
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Most claims by workmen against their employers are paid for by a trade union. |
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Many businesspeople feel punch-drunk as they try to cope with new rules on working time, trade union recognition and European works councils. |
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This must include a critical examination of the behaviour of the leadership of the works council and the trade union. |
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Last year, the company began a restructuring deal with the trade union in a bid to cut costs by up to 14 billion kronor. |
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The election of New Labour in May 1997 was greeted enthusiastically on the Left as presaging trade union resurgence and a renewal of militancy. |
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The ICTU is under massive pressure from trade union officials representing workers in the private sector. |
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The applicant was an Italian national who had been legally resident in France since his birth and was working there as a trade union official. |
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The annihilator of the hereditary peers has succumbed to the trade union barons. |
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But he was careful to retain links with a layer of left wing trade union and party officials. |
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Pride of place in the discussion was given to dissident Labour MPs and senior trade union officials. |
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The trade union local argues that the interests of the staff are prejudiced in this way. |
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The stoppage was organised by one of the trade union confederations representing Alitalia employees. |
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In its later years, the regime gradually permitted greater freedom of assembly, speech, and association, to include trade union activity. |
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Argentina's second-largest trade union confederation, led by teamster's leader Hugo Moyano, organized the protest. |
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For instance, it is often claimed that in Austria the pegging of the schilling to the German mark affected trade union behaviour. |
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Early predictions indicate that the marches look set to become by far the largest demonstration of trade union muscle in decades. |
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Eurotunnel train drivers are to hold a strike ballot over the issue of trade union recognition, it was announced this week. |
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He also has a broad basis of support because of his background as a trade union official. |
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Local party and trade union delegates also voted for debates on the issues of public services, pensions, employment rights and manufacturing. |
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Perhaps we need a trade union of the self-effacing, an Oscar for tentativeness and diffidence. |
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Some people are unkind enough to say it is a trade union and does not act in the public interest. |
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That organisation, like the trade union movement, can do a lot at national level. |
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It is estimated that less than one in four immigrant workers are represented by a trade union. |
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Workers do use it every time they organise a trade union and fight for better wages and conditions. |
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Therefore the trade union and labour movement now needs to get organised to fight back. |
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It is not an easy decision to become a trade unionist without a trade union. |
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How long are workers going to follow a trade union that has no real perspective to offer? |
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The bond between the trade union movement and the Labour Party is a century old and was forged at the latter's birth. |
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Garlands pays the minimum wage, gives no shift bonuses or sick pay, offers no pension provisions and does not allow trade union representation. |
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The trade union federation is demanding that a list of 30 companies slated for closure be covered by a severance agreement. |
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British trade union mythology is full of wonderfully stirring stories of doughty workers banding together to take on the government. |
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Because of the anti trade union laws the union reps couldn't call one officially. |
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The major industries were all nationalised, trade union power was dominant, and taxes were sky high. |
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The present crisis on the docks illustrates the dead end of the nationalist and pro-capitalist policy of the trade union bureaucracy. |
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That gave him unrivalled knowledge of the party and how the trade union link works. |
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Among the earliest opponents of Nazism in Germany were Communists, Socialists, and trade union leaders. |
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They remained unswerving in their support for the Democratic Party and the trade union bureaucracy. |
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The figures for untrained teachers were compiled by the trade union in the first fortnight in September. |
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Or, if that seems too uphill a task, he could try debating the subject with the incoming leader of a key trade union, Derek Simpson of Amicus. |
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It is just more socialist bureaucracy and more pandering to the trade union movement. |
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The same can be said about Attac's relations with the trade union bureaucracy, another important prop of the old social order. |
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Nowhere was this witch-hunt more thorough than within the bureaucratized trade union movement. |
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In addition, its Left was split equally along communist and social democratic lines, and the trade union movement was splintered as well. |
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There are a lot of people who are not trade union members, a lot of casual workers nowadays. |
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He was a lawyer and a trade union activist, a campaigner for human rights and democracy. |
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Since then the workers have been occupying the factory without general trade union support. |
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Moreover, trade union strongholds in the public sector are further threatened by ongoing privatisation. |
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Of course nobody can be certain about future developments and how the trade union leaders will act. |
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Labour is a trade union party so it was taken for granted it would fully implement the social chapter of the Maastricht Treaty. |
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There were suffragists and socialists, a trade union organizer, and a London city councillor in her heritage. |
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New Labour relied on its supporters in the trade union leadership to ram that message home. |
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Working-class masculinity was rooted in the more homosocial worlds of the trade union, the lodge, and other male-dominated urban spaces. |
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The leader of the trade union said he believed Mr Smith had done the honourable thing by resigning. |
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There's also a broader editorial committee that includes two university professors, two journalists, a systems analyst and a trade union staffer. |
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Over the last 20 years modern trade union leaders have abandoned the use of the strike as a blunt weapon in a class war against capitalism. |
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The gathering earlier this week of trade union leaders to discuss plans for a more robust manifesto was an indication of that. |
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The main trade union federations and professional associations called protest demonstrations for Saturday. |
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The three major trade union federations in Italy have organised a four-hour general strike for Friday 24 October. |
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It's a normal trade union rule that if someone's on strike you don't cross their picket line and you don't touch their work. |
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The actions were called by all seven of the main trade union confederations and all the parties of the left, including the Socialist Party. |
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And like a young woman, the idea of a trade union was sexy, alluring and necessary for continuance of the worker state. |
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Graham Goddard, a trade union convenor at the firm's Sheffield factory who is married with three children, was in the scheme for 20 years. |
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He was soon caught up in the trade union movement and became a union convener, a position he held for 12 years. |
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They have brought with them from the trade union covens the unreconstructed prejudices of an underclass. |
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The day shift was on strike 100 per cent, said Yanaki Atanassov, chairman of the port workers' trade union. |
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But Gephardt's campaign essentially collapsed, demonstrating the utter prostration of the trade union bureaucracy. |
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That it did is the outcome of the organization's and its affiliates ' political prostration before the Labour and trade union bureaucracy. |
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He left to join the finance department of Monklands Council, and found himself drawn into trade union work. |
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However, the figures suggest that those grass roots party members who chose to vote did so against the trade union line. |
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As a trade union official and a citizen I know the importance of honouring agreements freely entered into. |
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It is our task to ensure that every trade union member and every local union branch signs up as well. |
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The result was the mass workplace expulsions in July 1920 which severely weakened trade union organization in the city. |
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Action is needed throughout the labour and trade union movement in this country. |
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He firmly supported the Solidarity trade union movement that was to liberate the Polish people and light the fuse of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. |
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My father was a trade union man who always had his rosary in his pocket. |
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The trade union movement did not widely publicise the dispute, so that workers outside the immediate area knew little or nothing about the strike. |
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My persistent opposition has become a thorn in the side of the trade union leaders, because it has exposed their shameless collaboration with management. |
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The relationship between the trade union movement and the Labor Party is always one that is like a family and that is where blood is thicker than water. |
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The main trade union for Dublin bar workers forwarded our letter asking members to contact the research team if they were interested in participating. |
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The action, which is officially a one-day strike called by all the trade union federations and confederations, will be continued indefinitely by many workers. |
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A trade union has severed its 30-year ties and called time on an annual conference that brought hundreds of people and vital finance to the struggling resort. |
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The workers are members of the NIPSA public-sector trade union. |
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He became a steward in the merchant navy, and was a trade union activist. |
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We could well have a more radical left-wing party with some trade union support while on the right the Eurosceptics might have gone and formed a new party. |
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Since those heady days, the trade union has seen a sharp decline in popularity and membership as well as bitter divisions among former friends and comrades. |
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Moreover, managerial decentralisation and a shift in the locus of bargaining and power relations raises the prospect for trade union renewal at the state sector workplace. |
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I have just listened to Mr Clayton Cosgrove, who I believe is a former trade union official, and who understands all about producer boards, talking arrant nonsense. |
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If you say you are from the trade union movement they believe that you ought to be looking after conditions at the workplace and leave economic decisions to capital. |
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The Applicant was represented by an officer of his trade union. |
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We are the only political party with a mass link to the working class through the trade union movement, and like the unions, we have our share of careerists and reactionaries. |
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The White Australia policy was particularly championed by the ALP, the emerging trade union aristocracy and a whole host of petty bourgeois populists. |
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The Labor Party is the political wing of the trade union movement. |
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The council will pay tens of thousands of pounds out to its biggest trade union to recompense staff said to have been distressed over a jobs transfer. |
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I think we can civilise global capital, provided we realize who the beneficiaries are, and as I say, they are the trade union members, the pensioners, the workers. |
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He is a trade union activist helping organise the migrant workers. |
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The strike was held by the public service workers ' trade union, Unison. |
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One of the first things the British did in their zone of Germany was to sponsor a new trade union confederation, the sheet anchor of democracy in the years to come. |
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His roots were embedded in the Labour party, in its internal power mechanisms, its trade union affiliations and its conservative brand of social democracy. |
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Many workers have been swayed by communal propaganda and trade union organisations have not cared to educate them because they seldom look beyond their economism. |
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Sue Bolton is the convenor of the Socialist Alliance trade union working group, a member of its national executive and a Victorian Senate candidate. |
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Definitively, a labourist ideology will have its bases in the trade union movement and see conciliation and arbitration as the most beneficial means of industrial relations. |
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The decision has been hailed by union leaders as a landmark in granting constitutional rights for trade union activity in a number of other employment sectors. |
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If teachers were represented by some kind of professional association, like a guild or trade union, we could avoid all the misery this government is bringing into our schools. |
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This is bound up both with the bipartisan support for these attacks on city employees, and with the role of the city unions and the entire trade union bureaucracy. |
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When this dispute ends the government must take steps to ensure that it can never again be held to ransom by a militant, unreconstructed trade union. |
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He knows that the Labour Party's abandonment of social reformism and its disassociation from the working class would never have been possible without trade union backing. |
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As a former trade union convenor, Ferguson has always had a developed sense of his own worth financially, but in Edwards he found an implacable adversary. |
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A large number were trade union members paying the political levy to the Labour Party, and there were many individual Labour Party members as well. |
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What remained of the guild system was swept away in the name of free enterprise and repressive legislation choked the beginnings of the trade union movement. |
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He is not a socialist, but a pluralist who stands in a long tradition of sympathetic academics who wish to elevate the role of trade union leaders. |
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Rather than calling for united action by autoworkers against job losses, the trade union leaders argued for a change in economic strategy by the government. |
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Built in 1959, in the International Style, it has become the focal hub of the Province's trade union movement, and one of Northern Ireland's youngest listed buildings. |
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The introduction of a trade union secondee this year to give additional advice to our employed members is an example of this. |
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One half of the supervisory Board should be appointed by the workpeople through trade union machinery, normally at company or combine level. |
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Just as in the case of TISA, the national trade union federation gave the first warning signal. |
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Severing's belief that trade union workers were the most progressive and democratic element in Germany holds up well under investigation. |
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In 2010 the region had the second highest trade union membership among UK men. |
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It was initially formed as a means for the trade union movement to establish political representation for itself at Westminster. |
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Current MEPs also include former judges, trade union leaders, media personalities, actors, soldiers, singers, athletes, and political activists. |
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New labour legislation introduced by the Conservative government in 1992 laid down that the POA could no longer be a trade union. |
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In this work, guilds were presented as an alternative to state control of industry or conventional trade union activity. |
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One of these, the trade union official Frank Meade, suggested Wigan, where Orwell spent February staying in dirty lodgings over a tripe shop. |
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Newspapers flourished in the second half of the 19th century, usually tied to one or another political party or trade union. |
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Trade union density, or the percentage of workers belonging to a trade union, is highest in the Nordic countries. |
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By this stage, some 12,000,000 workers in the United Kingdom were trade union members. |
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Tradesmen who came from Britain brought traditions of the British trade union movement, and many British unions had branches in Canada. |
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The Canadian Labour Congress was founded in 1956 as the national trade union center for Canada. |
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In the 1870s and 1880s, the growing trade union movement began a series of protests against foreign labour. |
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In Western Europe, professional associations often carry out the functions of a trade union. |
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Other global trade union organizations include the World Federation of Trade Unions. |
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Several sources of current news exist about the trade union movement in the world. |
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These include LabourStart and the official website of the international trade union movement Global Unions. |
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From 1914 to 1918, trade union membership doubled, from a little over four million to a little over eight million. |
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In the long run, there was little impact on trade union activity or industrial relations. |
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The defeat of the miners' strike led to a long period of demoralisation in the whole of the trade union movement. |
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The trade union movement in Britain gradually developed from the Medieval guild system. |
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In May 2012, Qatari officials declared their intention to allow the establishment of an independent trade union. |
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And today there are more members in the trade union, more train drivers, and more trains running. |
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For example, at first historians emphasized that strikes became illegal in July 1940, and no trade union called one during the war. |
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He was appointed Miners' Agent in August 1879 and his new career as a trade union organiser and functionary was launched. |
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In the 1890s the ILP was lacking in alliances with the trade union organisations. |
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Social democracy is connected with the trade union labour movement and supports collective bargaining rights for workers. |
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Y Darian, as it was known, strongly supported the trade union movements among the miners and ironworkers of the valleys. |
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For example, the trade union is a type of coalition which was formed in order to represent employees' wages, benefits, and working conditions. |
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As industrial work forces grew in Western Europe, socialism and trade union activity developed. |
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There was civil unrest, and the colonial government crushed all trade union activities. |
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The wage outcome is a result of two factors, trade union pressure, or pushfulness, and employer resistance. |
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Angry building workers initiated street protests, and were soon joined by others in a march to the Berlin trade union headquarters. |
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In the 1870's and 1880's, the growing trade union movement began a series of protests against foreign labour. |
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This is a form of strike action taken by a trade union or other organized labor group for environmentalist or conservationist purposes. |
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Similar articles appeared in the trade union press, including the American Federationist, Library Journal, and the Wilson Library Bulletin. |
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Norway's main trade union LO threatened to boycott the Scandic hotel chain, owned by the US-based Hilton Hotels Corp. |
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Thus, in a democratic fight, a Bosnian and Herzegovinian trade union leader lost his position. |
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Proof that those policies were right is the fact that, during 13 years of Labour government the trade union laws were not repealed and the utilities were not renationalised. |
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The ILO has also asked the Nigerian government to remove certain worker categories from its essential services list so trade union conventions may be enforced. |
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When the Cold War broke out after the end of World War II, Bulosan and his compatriots in the trade union movement were targeted by the McCarthyite witch-hunts. |
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The Miners' Federation of Great Britain was established in Newport, Monmouthshire in 1888 but did not function as a unified, centralised trade union for all miners. |
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Cole advocated the public ownership of industries and their organisation into guilds, each of which would be under the democratic control of its trade union. |
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Inflation also fell during this period and trade union power was reduced. |
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The trade union leaders, who had organised the meeting, were arrested. |
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The call was made by eight trade union members from Arab countries, including Kuwait, during a meeting in Amman on the conditions of the Arab trade unionist movement. |
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The cutbacks were imposed at the Snath Comer factory in Gweedore's Derrybeg industrial estate after consultations between the mangement and trade union officials. |
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Plans for trade union reform introduced yesterday are the most restrictive proposals since Norman Tebbit stuck his bovver boots into the workers 30 years ago. |
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