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Labor and unions
Other important associations including trade unions were forced to merge with the German Labor Front ( Deutsche Arbeitsfront โ€” DAF ), to which all workers had to belong.
Labor unions cooperated increasingly with industry, achieving labor representation on corporate boards and increases in wages and benefits.
Labor unions were banned and all political activity using violence or intimidation to achieve its goals was forbidden.
He developed a " mutualist " theory of unions and as such was active within the Knights of Labor and later promoted anti-political strategies in the American Federation of Labor.
* Labor unions in the United States-a different use of the word jurisdiction
* Labor unions in the United States
" One of the significant national craft unions to be formed during this time was the National Labor Union ( NLU ).
Supporters of Unions, such as the ACTU or Australian Labor Party, often credit trade unions with leading the labour movement in the early 20th century, which generally sought to end child labour practices, improve worker safety, increase wages for both union workers and non-union workers, raise the entire society's standard of living, reduce the hours in a work week, provide public education for children, and bring other benefits to working-class families.
The National Labor Relations Act, enacted in 1935 as part of the New Deal legislation, guarantees workers the right to form unions and engage in collective bargaining.
* 1935 โ€“ The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
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.
Through the unions and the NSW Young Labor Council, Keating met other future Labor figures such as Laurie Brereton, Graham Richardson and Bob Carr.
Labor unions formed an important part of this network.
Official labor unions have been grouped under the Federation of Labor Unions.
A number of independent unions, which emerged during 1992, among them the Independent Union of Miners of Ukraine, have formed the Consultative Council of Free Labor Unions.
Labor unions and strikes occurred worldwide in the later part of the decade, and continued until World War I.
Many labor unions have negotiated to have the day off, however, since its proximity to Labor Day ( May 1 ) often allows an extended five day weekend or two consecutive three day weekends.
Labor unions, the government, or other organizations may also fund pensions.
In the 1970s, following the Civil Rights Movement, the Labor Department under Secretary George P. Shultz was instrumental in promoting racial diversity in unions.
The United States Secretary of Labor is the head of the Department of Labor who exercises control over the department and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace, and all other issues involving any form of business-person controversies.
Labor unions, which had been treated negatively in " The Roads Must Roll ", are here subjected to even more severe and categorical criticism, where a significant portion of the plot revolves around Max's attempts to enter the closed guild system of the spacelines ' officers and crew.

Labor and adopted
Howard, determined to avoid a repetition of the 1993 election, adopted a " small target " strategy โ€“ committing to keep Labor reforms such as Medicare, and defusing the republic issue by promising to hold a constitutional convention.
An outgrowth of the struggles of the Western Federation of Miners ( WFM ), the IWW also adopted the WFM's description of the AFL as the " American Separation of Labor.
The concept of One Big Union in western Canada did not gain widespread acceptance until the Western Labor News reported that the idea had been adopted by the Australian Workers International Industrial Union in South Melbourne, Australia.
This was first adopted by the left-wing of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party.
He was active in the Labor Zionist youth movement " HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed " and joined a Nahal group named Ya ' alon, a name he later adopted.
as bargaining agent under the newly adopted National Labor Relations Act.
An International Association of Machinists strike in Bridgeport developed into a Labor Party in five Connecticut towns in the summer of 1918 and the powerful Chicago Federation of Labor ( led by President John Fitzpatrick and Secretary-Treasurer Edward Nockles ) adopted the cause of a Labor Party in the fall of that same year.
In 1918, the Canadian TLC leaders adopted a " non-partisan " policy advocated by the American Federation of Labor, and the CLP was largely abandoned.
Without a title sponsor for 2009, the race tentatively adopted the moniker of Southern 500, the traditional name of the fall race run from 1950-2004 on Labor Day weekend.
Ever cognizant of the common practice of AFL craft unions crossing each other's picket lines, the IWW adopted the WFM's description of the AFL as the " American Separation of Labor.
Pierre Joseph Proudhon ยด s mutualism and american individualist anarchists such as Josiah Warren, Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker adopted the liberal Labor Theory of Value of classical economics but used it to criticize capitalism instead favoring a non-capitalist market system.
1882 was also the year that FOTLU adopted a proposal to establish a national Labor Day holiday on the first Monday in September.
The Western Australian party led by its secretary Alick McCallum initially adopted an approach which allowed both sides to disagree amicably and remain in the movement, but ultimately, this proved impossible as the 1917 federal election loomed and Labor members were forced to choose between the Official Labor and National Labor Senate teams.
* The International Labor Defense, its Constitution and Organization Resolution: adopted by the Fourth National Convention New York: International Labor Defense,
McGowen's support for Federation was critical to Labor maintaining its support for the adoption of measures to implement Federation, even though it remained opposed to the Constitution adopted, which it saw as biased in favour of business interests.

Labor and characters
* Pearls Before Swine cartoonist Stephan Pastis ( known for using other comic characters in his strip ) portrayed Nancy and Sluggo as extras to replace Rat and Goat during the 2002 " Pearls Labor Dispute ".
In the Slave Labor comic, the characters are more verbose.

Labor and .
Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.
The issue was sufficiently potent in 1935 to spark secession from the American Federation of Labor of its industrial union members.
That breach was healed 20 years later by merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
But now apparently the job of Secretary of Labor requires that he be willing to risk his reputation as a prognosticator of unemployment trends.
Recently Treasury Secretary Dillon and Labor Secretary Goldberg fell into line with Mr. Hodges' appraisal, though there has been some reluctance to do so at the White House.
Another optimistic sign, this one from the Labor Department, was the report that the long rise in unemployment compensation payments `` was interrupted for the first time in the week ending Feb. 25 ''.
They did not view the tour of the distressed cities and towns by Secretary of Labor Goldberg as politics, which the GOP declared it to be.
`` My cousin works at the Labor Bureau.
`` The Dictionary Of Occupational Titles '' published by the U. S. Department of Labor describes him as follows: `` Designs, plans and furnishes interiors of houses, commercial and institutional structures, hotels, clubs, ships, theaters, as well as set decorations for motion picture arts and television.
Labor fights to change its collar from blue to white.
While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.
But the current issues arose out of the Wagner-Peyser Act concerning referrals to an establishment where a labor dispute exists, and out of Public Law 78 and the Migrant Labor Agreement if Mexican nationals were employed at the ranch.
However, the Attorney General of California, at the request of the Secretary of Labor, sought to have the jurisdiction over the issue removed to the Federal District Court, on grounds that it was predominantly a Federal issue since the validity of the Secretary's Regulation was being challenged.
Further, and as an evidence of legislative intent only, the Senate of the United States recently defeated by a substantial majority the `` Holland Amendment '' to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which would have specifically limited the regulatory authority of the Secretary in these matters.
To have applied statewide the decisions of the two cases heard in Superior Court, in my opinion, would have placed us clearly out of compliance with the Wagner-Peyser Act and would have immediately opened the way for the Secretary of Labor, were he so inclined, to notify the Governor of such noncompliance, set a date for hearing, and issue his finding.
Because of the uncertainty of this definition, I solicited the interpretation of the Secretary of Labor.
) Mrs. Arthur Goldberg, wife of the Secretary of Labor, paints professionally and helps sponsor the Associated Artists' Gallery in the District of Columbia.
The President has also called upon the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Secretary of Labor to coordinate their efforts `` in the development of a program of federal leadership to assist states and local communities in their efforts to cope with the problem.
Mr. Delaney and Mr. O'Neill are not willing to vote on the public-school measure until the defense education bill clears the House Education and Labor Committee.
Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg will speak Sunday night at the Masonic Temple at a $25-a-plate dinner honoring Sen. Wayne L. Morse, Aj.
Other speakers for the fund-raising dinner include Reps. Edith Green and Al Ullman, Labor Commissioner Norman Nilsen and Mayor Terry Schrunk, all Democrats.
Employes of Montgomery Ward & Co. at The Dalles, in a National Labor Relations Board election Thursday voted to decertify Local 1565, Retail Clerks International Association, AFL-CIO, as their collective bargaining agent.
Sydney Larson, a staff representative for the United Steel Workers, which the firm's 25 workers joined before striking, said the state Labor Relations Board has been asked to set up an election to pick a bargaining agent.
-- Farm machinery dealer Bob Houtz tilts back in a battered chair and tells of a sharp pickup in sales: `` We've sold four corn pickers since Labor Day and have good prospects for 10 more.
Compare this statement of a nineteenth-century judge with how Congressman Martin, according to the Daily Labor Report of Sept. 19, 1961, defends the necessity of enacting anti-trust legislation in the field of labor `` if we wish to prevent monopolistic fixing of wages, production or prices and if we wish to preserve the freedom of the employer and his employees to contract on wages, hours and conditions of employment ''.

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