In the European Union, 18 out of 25 member states currently have national minimum wages.

* General Union of Spinners organizes strike action to raise wages in the smaller U. K. cotton centres to the Manchester level.

" A " Member of the Builders ' Union " in the 1830s argued that the trade unions " will not only strike for less work, and more wages, but will ultimately abolish wages, become their own masters and work for each other ; labor and capital will no longer be separate but will be indissolubly joined together in the hands of workmen and work-women.

Members of the Trade Union Congress were also angered when the PNDC ordered them to withdraw demands for increased wages.

David Dubinsky and the International Ladies ' Garment Workers ' Union opposed the project, arguing that the factory town would cause unions to lose their power over wages.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert was released in 1996 and set in a alternate universe where the Soviet Union wages war with the Allied West.

Many adult freedmen worked for wages for the Army at such camps, teachers were recruited from the North for their schools by the American Missionary Association, and thousands of freedmen enlisted from such camps in the United States Colored Troops to fight with the Union against the Confederacy.

The IWW sought to unite the entire working class into One Big Union which would struggle for improved working conditions and wages in the short term, while working to ultimately overthrow capitalism through a general strike, after which the members of the union would manage production ( also see anarcho-syndicalism which has some similarities ...)

Revolutionary Industrial Unionism, that is the proposition that all wage workers come together in organization according to industry ; the groupings of the workers in each of the big divisions of industry as a whole into local, national, and international industrial unions ; all to be interlocked, dovetailed, welded into One Big Union for all wage workers ; a big union bent on aggressively forging ahead and compelling shorter hours, more wages and better conditions in and out of the work shop ... until the working class is able to take possession and control of the machinery, premises, and materials of production right from the capitalists ' hands ...

As was the case with other unions of the day, the Cigarmaker's Union nearly collapsed in the financial crisis of 1877, in which unemployment skyrocketed and ready availability of desperate workers willing to labor for subsistence wages put pressure upon the gains in wages and shortening of hours achieved in union shops.

The theory developed over time, emphasising the continued existence of wages and money in the Soviet Union to indicate that capitalism had not been abolished.

In the 1911 pamphlet " One Big Union ", IWW supporters Father Thomas J. Hagerty and William Trautmann enumerated two goals: One Big Union needed to " combine the wage-workers in such a way that it can most successfully fight the battles and protect the interests of the workers of today in their struggles for fewer hours of toil, more wages and better conditions ," and it also " must offer a final solution of the labor problem — an emancipation from strikes, injunctions, bull-pens, and scabbing of one against the other.

Moved to action by the rising cost of living, the president of the Boston Telephone Operator's Union, Julia O ' Connor, asked for higher wages from the New England Telephone Company.

Legal proceedings backed by the Players ' Union this time established that clubs could not unilaterally impose a cut in players ' contracted wages.

He also became the Branch Officer for the Transport and General Workers Union ( responsible for the public sector in Gibraltar and was the main force behind the attainment of parity of wages with the UK for Gibraltarians ).

The Players ' Union, like the AFU before it, sought the relaxation of restrictions on transfers and wages.

By 1947 a combination of the emerging Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and growing social conflicts in France, linked to the increasing gap between wages and prices, put the three party union ( SFIO, PCF and MRP ) under heavy pressure.

", was used as a taunt in the video game Red Alert 2, in which the Soviet Union wages World War III against the Western Allies.

James Larkin, a militant syndicalist trade unionist, founded the Irish Transport and General Worker's Union ( ITGWU ) and tried to win improvements in wages and conditions for unskilled and semi-skilled workers.

In 1975, Guardian staffers, with the aid of Newspaper Guild Local 52 and International Typographical Union Local 21, signed union cards to seek higher wages and benefits.

In 1940, he left the sugar factory following a strike for higher wages and joined the St. Kitts and Nevis Trades and Labour Union as a clerk.

He apparently did not think the wound was serious at the time, and so he sent his personal physician to attend to some wounded captured Union soldiers instead.

Hoxha and Shehu apparently decided in May or June 1960 that Albania was assured of Chinese support, and they openly sided with the PRC when sharp polemics erupted between the PRC and the Soviet Union.

Using foreign Communist Parties to recruit volunteers for Spain was first proposed in the Soviet Union in September 1936 — apparently at the suggestion of Maurice Thorez — by Willi Münzenberg, chief of Comintern propaganda for Western Europe.

The low-yield warheads were apparently selected to make the weapon unsuitable as a first-strike weapon against hardened targets in the Soviet Union, but could be used in a retaliatory strike against soft targets, or in a pre-emptive strike against unhardened surface targets such as airfields, SAM sites, radar sites and other similar targets, opening a pathway for heavy bombers.

Besides the United States and Soviet Union, France and China are understood to have tested neutron or enhanced radiation bombs in the past, with France apparently leading the field with an early test of the technology in 1967 and an " actual " neutron bomb in 1980.

At the apparently successful conclusion of the Council of Lyon, a Union of Churches was declared, and Charles and Philip of Courtenay were compelled to extend a truce with Michael.

The plane apparently ran out of fuel en route to the Soviet Union.

( Longstreet, despite his use of scouting parties, was apparently unaware that a considerable body of troops from the Union VI Corps was in position to block this move.

On July 1919, however, Zhou became editor of the Tianjin Student Union Bulletin, apparently at the request of his Nankai classmate, Ma Jun, a founder of the Union.

This was obviously in the interest of the Federal Republic of Germany but — because the Soviet Union also maintained diplomatic relations with the German Democratic Republic — it was apparently inconsistent with the exclusive mandate policy, which insisted that other states should not maintain diplomatic relations with both German " states ".

Mao Zedong had apparently decided that the Soviet Union was far more of a danger than the United States.

The president of the Mount Union Refractories hired Nolen to create a model town, apparently inspired by the Progressive Era notion that superior housing and other community amenities designed under a master plan would improve the moral character of its inhabitants.

Unfortunately, a Musicians Union recording ban from 1942 to 1944 prevented immediate retakes ; by the time the ban ended, the Philadelphia Orchestra had left RCA Victor for Columbia Records and RCA apparently was hesitant to promote the orchestra any further.

In 1984, she returned to the Soviet Union, where she and her daughter were granted citizenship, albeit apparently retaining her acquired United States citizenship.

The lyrics present great similarities, all having mentions to Vladmir Lenin ( and, in their initial versions, to Joseph Stalin ), to the guiding role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and to the brotherhood of the Soviet peoples, including a specific reference to the friendship of the Russian people ( the Estonian and Karelo-Finnish anthems were apparently an exception to this last rule ).

Shortly afterward, apparently fearing he might be abducted in Lebanon, Philby defected to the Soviet Union under cover of night aboard a Soviet freighter.

Union Army records show slightly more than 2, 677, 000 enlistments in that army but this number apparently includes many re-enlistments.

The untrained and undisciplined Texans and local volunteers attacked furiously, and in some cases apparently ignored Union soldiers ' attempts to surrender.

Top: Large, colorful Toynbee tile found in downtown Washington, D. C .; Bottom: Closeup of its bottom tab, apparently mentioning the Soviet Union | U. S. S. R., which had been gone for years by the time this photo was taken.

While Bridges was apparently never a member of the CP — something the government tried to prove, without success, in four different trials over more than a decade — he worked closely with Party activists and helped advance their careers within the union, while the union that grew out of the strike, the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union, espoused the party's politics for decades.

The Flying Standards were so-called because of the major radiator design change, topped by the Union Flag badge apparently streaming backwards in contrast to its previous forward-facing position.

This was the first fully automatic camera produced in the former Soviet Union, as well as the first to use ASA / DIN markings rather than the Soviet GOST numbers, however these ASA numbers were still mostly useless as they didn't match any known film speeds ( some Zorki 10 cameras apparently had GOST numbers instead of ASA though, as it's shown in a Polish camera manual ).

Not long after the Union forces were astride the apparently docile Chickahominy River, a period of heavy rains came on and the river and swamps were so flooded that they became almost completely impassable.