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  Union Plus labor unions resources, benefits for union members
Union Plus benefits are for union members, retirees and their families.
Union members save $393 on average with Union Plus Auto Insurance and receive up to $250 for driver's education courses.
Union Plus benefits are for participating union members, retirees and their families.
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  AllRefer.com - industrial union (Labor) - Encyclopedia
industrial union, labor union composed of all the workers in a given industry, regardless of skill, craft, or occupation (as opposed to the craft union, in which all members are of one skill, such as carpenters or electricians).
The industrial union is sometimes referred to as a vertical union, since it accepts workers from the least to the most skilled as members.
Three kinds of industrial unions were recognized : those consisting of all employees working on the same commodity (e.g., electrical workers or brewery workers), those using the same tools to work on different materials (e.g., textile and aluminum workers), and all employees of a given factory regardless of their particular skill.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/I/indust-uni.html   (492 words)

  
 Industrial unionism -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Advocates of industrial unionism value its contributions to building unity and solidarity, suggesting the slogans, "an injury to one an injury to all" and "the longer the picket line, the shorter the strike."
Industrial unionism contrasts with (additional info and facts about craft unionism) craft unionism, which organizes workers along lines of their specific trades, even if leads to multiple union locals (with different contracts) in the same workplace.
The theory and practice of industrial unionism is not confined to the western, English speaking world.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/I/In/Industrial_unionism.htm   (273 words)

  
 The ALEV Agricultural and Industrial Union
The ALEV Agricultural and Industrial Union was set up in 1994.
The organization includes ZAO ALEV located in the town of Dmitrovgrad in the Ulyanovsk Region, the OOO Zavolzhsky Milk Processing Plant, the main enterprise located in the town of Ulyanovsk, the OAO MS3 Koshkinsky in the Samara Region, and representative offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Chelyabinsk.
The ALEV Agricultural and Industrial Union is one of five leading companies producing butter and spreads in the Russian Federation.
www.alev.ru /eng   (205 words)

  
 International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America --  Britannica Student ...
An industrial union, the UMWA includes miners in bituminous and anthracite coal mines, as well as workers outside the mining industry.
The union grew out of an agreement reached in 1936 between the newly formed Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO; later the Congress of Industrial Organizations) and the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers, an older union that had failed in...
It was formed in 1976 by the merger of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA), a large union representing workers in the men's clothing industry, with the Textile Workers Union of America, a smaller union founded in 1939.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9311823   (1007 words)

  
 industrial union on Encyclopedia.com
Airline union concessions in the wake of deregulation.
Unions urged to refuse work from locked out Finnish paper mills; Finnish paper companies retaliate against Paperiliitto's industrial action.
Altadis and Labour Unions Reach an Agreement on Industrial Restructuring in Andalusia.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/i1/indust-uni.asp   (837 words)

  
 Get a Web site account | Industrial Workers of the World
Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Workers Industrial Union 230
Printing and Publishing House Workers Industrial Union 450
Pulp and Paper Mill Workers Industrial Union 490
www.iww.org /en/user/register   (126 words)

  
 Starbucks Union | IWW Starbucks Workers Union
The IWW had accused Starbucks managers of coercively interrogating employees about their union activities and implying that union organizing activities could lead to adverse personnel action, among other things.
On Friday, the Starbucks Workers Union--a union affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and formed in response to Starbucks' mistreatment of its baristas--held a press conference outside of Starbucks' Wealthy Street store in East Grand Rapids to respond to charges filed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against the company.
The Union originally expected to know whether or not Starbucks would settle the charges or fight them before the 3:00pm press conference.
www.starbucksunion.org   (832 words)

  
 Industrial Workers of the World | One Big Union!
Key to union survival is organizing foreign-owned factories
After one of the workers was suspended on Saturday, the other four approached the boss in an attempt to discuss the situation.
Basically, this is another underhanded attempt by the owners to break union solidarity and try to stem lost business from the pickets.
www.iww.org   (869 words)

  
 syndicatio | Industrial Workers of the World
At Industrial Workers of the World, all users and each user, have an RSS feed for their blog.
In addition to displaying RSS feeds, Industrial Workers of the World offers this OPML file which lists all RSS feeds that are collected here.
For example, here is a feed for Metal Mine Workers Industrial Union 210, Textile and Clothing Workers Industrial Union 410, Agricultural Workers Industrial Union 110
www.iww.org /en/syndication   (727 words)

  
 Union Voice--online activism with an offline impact
The Working Families Network (WFN) is a network of unions that utilize the Internet to get timely news updates and information to those interested in issues concerning America's workers.
Sign up to receive e-mail alerts from your union or local union movement when your voice is needed.
Central Labor Union and Industrial Union Council Erie County
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