The coalition also lost the seats of Corio and Dawson to Labor in by-elections.

They lost many craft unionists that year to the rival Railroad brotherhoods and the new American Federation of Labor, which had more conservative reputations.

Keating Labor lost the subsequent 1996 election to the Liberal / National Coalition led by John Howard.

The first warning sign of a swing away from Labor came in March 1995, when Labor lost Canberra in a by-election.

The standing of Heffron's government suffered when the electors rejected its proposal to abolish the New South Wales Legislative Council at a referendum in April 1961, being the first time Labor had lost a state electoral poll in 20 years.

However, when McMahon lost the 1972 election to Labor Leader Gough Whitlam, relations between Sydney and Canberra got even worse.

At the general election in September 1940, there was a large swing to Labor and the UAP-Country Party coalition lost its majority, continuing in office only because of the support of two independent MPs, Arthur Coles and Alexander Wilson.

It may have lost government had it not been for the Democratic Labor Party's longstanding practice of preferencing against Labor.

Labor narrowly lost the 1928 state election to the Nationalist Party.

The Liberals lost 13 seats to Labor, led by Steve Bracks, at the 1999 election, most of them in regional centres such as Ballarat and Bendigo.

The Liberals won re-election and Labor lost its slim majority.

Cain retired from Parliament at the 1992 Victorian state election, which Labor lost.

After the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) lost government in 1922, Lang was elected as Opposition Leader in 1923 by his fellow Labor Party MPs.

The Hersey General Store, which was established in 1869, was lost to a fire on Labor Day 2008.

The Fremantle state seat was continuously held by the Australian Labor Party from 1924 until 2009, when it was lost at a by-election to Greens candidate Adele Carles.

The Deakin-led Liberal Party government lost to Fisher Labor at the 1910 election, which saw the first time a federal political party had been elected with a majority in either house in Federal Parliament.

Labor opposition leader John Curtin declined to join and Menzies lost his majority at the 1940 Election.

As a result, he lost his seat at the 1946 election, though the Labor Party itself comfortably retained office.

However, in 1957 the Labor Party split resulted not only in Labor falling from power, but also in Forde being defeated in his own seat after a disputed and re-run election ; he lost by only one vote.

Just before the Board lost a quorum, the five Members agreed to delegate their authority to a three-person panel ( as provided for by the National Labor Relations Act ).

Edmund Barton and other well-known protectionists lost their seats, the Labor following was reduced from 30 to 18, and Reid formed his first cabinet.

The issue was sufficiently potent in 1935 to spark secession from the American Federation of Labor of its industrial union members.

Labor fights to change its collar from blue to white.

Labor unions were banned and all political activity using violence or intimidation to achieve its goals was forbidden.

The Liberal Party increased its numbers from 52 to 61, and the Country Party from 20 to 21, with Labor dropping from 51 to 41 seats, and one Independent.

Whitlam proved a far more effective opponent, both in the media and in parliament, and Labor soon began to recover from its losses and gain ground, with Whitlam repeatedly besting Holt in Parliament.

In 1888, Labadie organized the Michigan Federation of Labor, became its first president, and forged an alliance with Samuel Gompers.

And in December 1918, the American Federation of Labor ( AFL ) issued its own distinctively apolitical report, which called for the achievement of numerous incremental improvements via the collective bargaining process.

Remnants of the Knights of Labor continued in existence until 1949, when the group's last 50-member local dropped its affiliation.

Terence V. Powderly | Terence Powderly, Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor during its meteoric rise and precipitous decline.

Labor which is highly skilled on the other hand owes part of its produce to an " investment " made in training and is almost like capital ( hence the modern concept of human capital ).

It predates Leninism as De Leonism's principles developed in the early 1890s with De Leon's assuming leadership of the Socialist Labor Party ; Leninism and its vanguard party idea took shape after the 1902 publication of Lenin's " What Is to Be Done?

In 2007, the Marshall Islands joined the International Labor Organization, which means its labor laws will comply with international benchmarks.

The Nationals hold a larger membership base than either the Liberal or Labor Parties, although in the larger eastern states its vote is in decline and its traditional supporters are turning instead to prominent independents such as Bob Katter, Tony Windsor and Peter Andren in Federal Parliament and similar independents in the Parliaments of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, many of whom are former members of the National Party.

* 1981 – The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.

Later in 1995, Queensland Labor barely held onto its majority at the 1995 state election before losing it altogether in a 1996 by-election held a week after Keating called a federal election for March.

South Australia's Governor is Kevin Scarce and its Premier is Jay Weatherill of the Australian Labor Party.

A further split, this time of left-wing NSW Labor MPs who supported the unorthodox economic policies of NSW Premier Jack Lang, cost the Scullin government its parliamentary majority.

The Labor Party meanwhile experienced a split along pro and anti Communist lines over policy towards the Soviet Union for its co-operation with Nazi Germany in the invasion of Poland.

The Labor government seemed more effective than its predecessor, and Fadden and Hughes were unable to get the better of Curtin.

The Leadville strike set the scene not only for the WFM's consideration of militant tactics and its embrace of radicalism, but also for the birth of the Western Labor Union ( which became the American Labor Union ), the WFM's participation in the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World, and for events which culminated in the Colorado Labor Wars.