By 1910 the industry faded due to problems invoked by labor unions and convict labor.

As the prospects for such a social cataclysm have faded over time, the party has increasingly emphasized the ameliorative value of trade unions in capitalist society.

By the end of the 1980s, membership had fallen to just over 6, 000, 000 — little more than half the level of a decade earlier — and it also counted against the Labour Party's hopes of regaining power, as its relationship with the trade unions had traditionally been seen as a strength but after the Winter of Discontent it was seen as a liability.

Social Unionism encompasses many unions that use their organisational strength to advocate for social policies and legislation favourable to their members or to workers in general.

The strength of unions can be best measured by their effectiveness in national protests rather than by membership figures.

Under this analysis, featherbedding is a response by unions to their weakness, not strength.

This method tends to reinforce the focus of construction sector unions upon the trade ( s ) in which they have historic strength and thereby militates against " competition " ( i. e.: raiding ) between worker organizations — a benefit to both workers and employers of the sector.

Originally a centre-left party ( with social-democratic intentions, though they never held any actual strength in the unions ) at the time of its foundation, PSDB moved to the centre after Fernando Henrique Cardoso forged an alliance with the right-wing Liberal Front Party and was elected President of Brazil.

Indeed, many unions that employ the organising model attempt to " bargain to organise " -- that is, win a greater right to organize non-union workers through pressuring an employer through using current members collective strength.

This is because the ZACF holds that the strength of trade unions, social movements and other organisations of the working class lies in their ability to unite the greatest number of workers regardless of their political, religious or ideological affiliations.

The strength of this setup is the cooperation among unions and management councils.

In recent years, and in spite its strength as the only labour representative in many forums, the CGT has faced growing opposition from other trade unions, such as the CTA, or the left-leaning grassroots organisations of unemployed people known as Piqueteros ( Picketing Men ), groups first in evidence during the Menem years which have since become tenuously allied with the Kirchner administrations.

During the war the Communist Party had grown greatly in strength in the trade unions which controlled and funded the Labor Party, leading a faction of anti-Communist Catholics to form within the party to fight Communist influence.

The new union's members were largely service sector unions which represented large numbers of women, immigrants and people of color, as opposed to the manufacturing unions which formed the basis of labor's strength for many years.

The Committee concluded that espionage was " the most efficient method known to management to prevent unions from forming, to weaken them if they secure a foothold, and to wreck them when they try their strength.

As unions and collective-bargaining units grew in strength, the atmosphere became more conducive to the development of group coverage.

More recently, as unions have become increasingly concerned with the impacts of market integration on their well-being, scholars have begun to assess whether popular concerns about a global “ race to the bottom ” are reflected in cross-country comparisons of union strength.

He writes that the threat of production shifts reduces unions ’ bargaining power even if it does not eliminate them, and also claims that most of the effects of globalization on labor ’ s strength are indirect.

Consitutional government, popular vote, trial by jury, public education, labor unions, cooperatives, communes, socialized ownership, world courts, and the veto power in world councils are but a few examples.

The First Liberal government also established the basis of the later welfare state, with old age pensions, developed a system for settling industrial disputes, which was accepted by both employers and trade unions.

Lamizana's government faced problems with the country's traditionally powerful trade unions and on November 25, 1980, Colonel Saye Zerbo overthrew President Lamizana in a bloodless coup.

Earlier French demands for the country to hold a National Conference resulted in the gathering of 750 delegates representing political parties ( which were legalized in 1992 ), the government, trade unions and the army to discuss the creation of a pluralist democratic regime.

The government also strengthened a Fair Wages Resolution, with a clause that required all employers getting government contracts to recognise the rights of their workers to join trade unions.

The government has reorganized the labor unions.

Finland has universal validity of collective labour agreements and often, but not always, the trade unions, employers and the government reach a Comprehensive Income Policy Agreement.

The Manifesto supported the creation of an eight-hour work day for all workers, a minimum wage, worker representation in industrial management, equal confidence in labour unions as in industrial executives and public servants, reorganization of the transportation sector, revision of the draft law on invalidity insurance, reduction of the retirement age from 65 to 55, a strong progressive tax on capital, confiscation of the property of religious institutions and abolishment of bishoprics, and revision of military contracts to allow the government to seize 85 % of their profits.

Not only had he largely excluded them from the often lucrative levers of government, but he also enacted the country's first income tax, fostered the growth of labor unions, and suggested that voodoo be considered as a religion equivalent to Roman Catholicism — a notion that the Europeanized elite abhorred.

Holt fostered greater collaboration between the government, the courts, employers and trade unions.

In some countries ( e. g., the Nordic countries and the Philippines ), trade unions may be invited to participate in government hearings about educational or other labour market reforms.

After the Winter of Discontent and the subsequent fall of the Labour government, many corners of the public and media believed that the trade unions were running the Labour Party-an image which Neil Kinnock was keen to shake off after becoming party leader in 1983.

“ In the Continental European System of labour market regulation, the government plays an important role as there is a strong legislative core of employee rights, which provides the basis for agreements as well as a framework for discord between unions on one side and employers or employers ’ associations on the other.

Many union members were illegally fired during the 1980s in the United States due to government opposition to unions.

Representatives of business, unions, and government participate in the conduct of major labour negotiations.

Left-libertarians, Libertarian socialists and left-wing anarchists believe in a decentralized economy run by trade unions, workers ' councils, cooperatives, municipalities and communes, and oppose both government and private control of the economy, preferring local control, in which a nation of decentralized regions are united in a confederation.

At the same time, the government strictly controlled pro-Allied labor unions.

Labor unions retaliated with a major strike in 1958, but the new government, now firmly established, quelled the uprising and forced many labor leaders into exile ; most of them remained there in the late 1980s.

Pressure from the private sector and the unions forced the government to resign in 1982.

The National Mobilization Law had fifty clauses, which provided for government controls over civilian organizations ( including labor unions ), nationalization of strategic industries, price controls and rationing, and nationalized the news media.

In the mid-1990s, legislation established significant rights for independent trade unions, separate from the government, and enhanced individual rights ; but enforcement is uneven, and the role of the state security agencies, principally the National Security Service ( SNB ), remains central.

The most spectacular manifestation of this was the May student revolt of 1968 in Paris that linked up with a general strike of ten million workers called by the trade unions ; and for a few days seemed capable of overthrowing the government of Charles de Gaulle.

* Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative party rise to power in the United Kingdom in 1979, initiating a neoliberal economic policy of reducing government spending, weakening the power of trade unions, and promoting economic and trade liberalization.

* April 14 – In Britain, labour unions for mining, railway and transportation workers call for a strike ; the government threatens to call in the army.