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  International Workingmen's Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The International Workingmen's Association (IWA), sometimes called the First International, was an international organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class.
Meanwhile, the anarchists continued to consider that they were unfairly ejected from the IWA, and finally decided to refound it themselves in a congress held at Berlin, in 1922.
The First International was largely considered to be a major factor leading to the creation of the Paris Commune of 1871.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Workingmen's_Association   (285 words)

  
 International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union which represents workers in the electrical industry in the United States and Canada, particularly electricians in the construction industry and linemen and other employees of public utilities.
The Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International is an Trotskyist international organisation.
The International Workers Association (IWA) (Spanish: AIT - Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores) is an international anarchosyndicalist federation of various labor unions from different countries.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/102/international-brotherhood-of-electrical-workers.html   (853 words)

  
 Anarcho-Syndicalism Society, Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Workers Solidarity Federation The WSF was an anarcho-syndicalist organization in South Africa.
Workers Solidarity Alliance Self-managed unionism as a strategy for social change and self-management as an alternative vision for society.
Workers Power and the Spanish Revolution An analysis of the role of the CNT-FAI in the Spanish Revolution from an anarcho-syndicalist perspective.
www.indiapolicyinstitute.org /aW5kXzI5Mzg1.aspx   (241 words)

  
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The Employer contends that the work in dispute always has been assigned to the Sheet Metal Workers, and that this is reflected in the national agreement between the National Association of Siding and Decking Contractors and the Sheet Metal Workers International Association, AFL- CIO and that it is bound to that agreement.
The Sheet Metal Workers International Association, AFL-CIO and Local 20 position at the hearing was that the matter was properly before the Board and that the Board should award the work in dispute to the employees of the Employer who are represented by the Sheet Metal Workers International Association.
Electrical Workers IBEW Local 1212 (Columbia Broadcasting), 364 U.S. The Board has held that its determination in a jurisdictional dispute is an act of judgment based on common sense and experience, reached by balancing the factors involved in a particular case.
www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/314/314-30.txt   (1799 words)

  
 Principles, Goals & Statutes of the International Workers Association
Since only the economic organizations of the proletariat are capable of achieving this objective, revolutionary unionism addresses itself to workers in their capacity as producers, creators of social wealth, to take root and develop amongst them, in opposition to the modern workers' parties, which it declares are incapable of the economic reorganization of society.
Members of an organization affiliated to the IWA, who are current in their dues, but reside in a region other than where they joined, should, no more than one month after their arrival, transfer their membership to the national affiliate of the IWA where they now reside.
A Secretariat is elected in order that: the international activities of the IWA be coordinated, to obtain and disseminate accurate information on propaganda and struggle in all countries, to realize the resolutions of the International Congresses in the best possible way and to carry out the work of the IWA.
dwardmac.pitzer.edu /dward/anarchy/rebelworker/spunk041.html   (2267 words)

  
 Sheet metal workers
Workers often take additional training, provided by the union or by their employer, to improve existing skills or to acquire new ones.
Job opportunities are expected to be good for sheet metal workers in the construction industry and in construction-related sheet metal fabrication, reflecting both employment growth and openings arising each year as experienced sheet metal workers leave the occupation.
Employment of sheet metal workers in construction is expected to grow about as fast as the average for all occupations through 2012, reflecting growth in the demand for sheet metal installations as more industrial, commercial, and residential structures are built.
stats.bls.gov /oco/ocos214.htm   (2071 words)

  
 About the International Workers Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Anarcho-syndicalists seek to build revolutionary unions, that organise all workers in a democratic union with a minimum number of full time 'officials' who will be on the average wage of those they represent and completely answerable to the rest of the membership.
The interview is with Tom Wetzel, from the Workers Solidarity Alliance, the U.S. section of the IWA.
The upshot was that Borghi and Pestana brought back negative reports on the Red Trade Union International to their respective organisations, and that's why they voted to not affiliate to the Red Trade Union International, but to try to found a libertarian union international instead.
flag.blackened.net /revolt/ws95/iwa44.html   (418 words)

  
 Open World Conference of Workers
The International Liaison Committee for a Workers' International (ILC) was set up in Barcelona (Spain) in January 1991 at the First Open World Conference by delegates from 63 countries.
The International Liaison Committee firmly believes that the emancipation of the working class from the yoke of oppression imposed by global capitalism will be achieved only by the workers themselves.
The goal was then as now to organize all the currents genuinely fighting for the defense of workers, on the basis of workers' democracy, respecting their diversity, to promote united action.
www.owcinfo.org /ILC/Index_ILC.html   (772 words)

  
 Editorial: How to Build the International
Whether this was the IWA's intention or not, by giving official recognition to IREAN, the IWA is furthering a split in the syndicalist movement of that country and may be cutting itself off from the majority of Russian syndicalists.
The IWA ignored these warnings, and the WSA was given a blank check to carry on sectarian warfare against the IWW and pro-IWW anarcho- syndicalists, all in the name of the international.
Once they are in the international, the IWA feels it must support these minority sections in their political feuds, without making a serious investigation into what these disputes are all about.
www.syndicalist.org /archives/llr14-24/15b.shtml   (695 words)

  
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The International Workers Association was founded in Berlin in 1922, but its origins trace back to the 1860's and the International Working Men's Association, better known as the First International.
The IWA appealed to the social democratic International Confederation of Trade Unions (ICTU) "to bring about united action of the international union forces" in an effort at "organizing the universal boycott of merchant ships, produce, merchandise and other goods from the fascist countries." * The plan was rejected by the ICTU.
The Polish syndicalist union with 130,000 workers, the ZZZ, had been on the verge of applying for membership of the IWA when it was crushed by the Nazi invasion.
www.workersolidarity.org /syndical.html   (1884 words)

  
 International Struggles in Russia and Korea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In Yasnogorsk, a town near Moscow, 4 200 workers in a machine-building plant are engaged in a battle against the old Communist Party municipality which wants to control the factory and the new capitalist state government which wants to privatise it.
In 1990, the workers gained the majority of shares in the factory and last September, the worker/shareholders dismissed all the factory bosses at a general meeting.
Workers were so angry that the bosses closed the factory on the 20 July to prevent strike action.
struggle.ws /africa/wsfws/99/ws9_inter.html   (616 words)

  
 Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Health workers in Negros Oriental are spearheading a national campaign to have all health workers’ wages increased by 100 percent.
Workers and labour activists in Taipei demonstrated on February 18 against the treatment of guest workers by local employers.
Guest workers are not allowed to change employers during the three years that they are permitted to work in the country.
www.wsws.org /articles/2004/feb2004/labo-f21.shtml   (1413 words)

  
 IAF-IFA
The International of Anarchist Federations (IAF or IFA) was founded during an international anarchist conference in Carrara in 1968 by the three existing european federations of France, Italy and Spain as well as the Bulgarian federation in french exile.
To counter the internationalisation of state and capitalist powers that are developing their influences ever rapidly on a global scale, the IFA has since aimed to build and improve strong and active international anarchist structures.
The federations associated with IFA believe that such an organisation is necessary to co-ordinate their international work and efficiently co-operate towards their mutual aims.
www.iaf-ifa.org   (264 words)

  
 SHEET METAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION LOCAL UNION No. 28
The president of this new national organization was Richard Patterson former head of the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers PBA of New York City.
The contractors association appealed to the IA and Local 10 was decertified.
The result of this confused situation caused the defeat of the President of the IA. And the creation of Local 28 to represent sheet metal workers in the metropolitan area from the Hackensack River to and north and east to the line of "Greater New York".
www.smwialu28.org /history/his1.html   (982 words)

  
 Workers' Educational Association - International Programmes
After the second world war, a number of organisations active in workers’ education came together to form the International Federation of Workers’ Education Associations (IFWEA) in 1947 and the WEA was a founder member.
IFWEA’s programmes and activities are based on participatory learning methods and on the recognition that, in the global economy, workers’ education has to have a strong international dimension.
Current work priorities include programmes for migrant workers and refugees, the development of civil society in Eastern Europe, and the development of dialogue between workers’ education organisations around the Mediterranean rim.
www.wea.org.uk /Education/International/ifwea.htm   (587 words)

  
 Workers Solidarity Alliance - OpenWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA) was created by the renaming of the Libertarian Workers Group in 1984.
The WSA became an affiliate of the International Workers Association (IWA).
This lead to an argument with anarcho-syndicalists in the Industrial Workers of the World, who thought IWA should not let the WSA become an affiliate.
www.infoshop.org /wiki/index.php?title=Workers_Solidarity_Alliance&printable=yes   (93 words)

  
 CONK! Web Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Workers Power and the Spanish Revolution - An analysis of the role of the CNT-FAI in the Spanish Revolution from an anarcho-syndicalist perspective.
Workers Solidarity Alliance - Self-managed unionism as a strategy for social change and self-management as an alternative vision for society.
Workers Solidarity Federation - The WSF was an anarcho-syndicalist organization in South Africa.
www.conk.com /directory/apexec.cgi?etype=odp&passurl=/Society/Politics/Anarchism/Anarcho-Syndicalism   (311 words)

  
 13th International Communist Seminar
The theme of the 14th International Communist Seminar of May 2005 will be "The Leninist Party, the experience of the Third International and their relevance for our struggle today".
At the time, the workers of the developed capitalist countries, even as they had common interests, had only few links between them, and the conscience of common revolutionary interests was low.
With the Third International, the international working class possessed an international fighting organization that was more united and developed than the political weapons the bourgeoisies of the different imperialist countries disposed of.
www.wpb.be /icm/2004/ICS2004/Intro_documents/Conclusions_Perspectives_EN.htm   (492 words)

  
 Sheet Metal Workers International Association - Local 276   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
We are members of the Sheet Metal Workers' International Association.
The International Association represents 150,000 members throughout Canada and the United States.
In March 1940, we became the "Sheet Metal Workers International Association, Local 276".
www.smwia276.ca   (99 words)

  
 asbestos workers International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers.
asbestos workers International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers.
International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers.
Apprentice wages start at 60% of the current journeyman rate with a guaranteed 5% increase each year for the next three years if all of the apprenticeship requirements are completed.
www.tnaflcio.org /asbestos.html   (251 words)

  
 International Iron Workers Association Selects American Welding Society for Welder Certification Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Miami ­ February 24, 2003 ­ The American Welding Society (AWS) and the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers announced today they have finalized an exclusive relationship to provide AWS accreditation services to Iron Worker facilities throughout the United States and Canada.
Under this program, AWS will accredit qualifying certification test facilities and train designated representatives from the International Iron Workers Association to act as auditors within the facilities to ensure that all welders in the program meet the same high quality standards.
International headquarters are located in Washington, D.C. The Association at present has 230 affiliated local unions in the United States and Canada.
www.aws.org /pr/feb24-2003.html   (400 words)

  
 GCIU: Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
International Labour Organization (ILO) – The government, employer, and worker representatives of the Geneva-based ILO set worldwide work standards.
International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre (CIS) – Works in conjunction with the International Labour Office in Geneva to collect and disseminate information on the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases.
National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice is an organization for people of faith who educate, organize, and mobilize in the United States on issues and campaigns for improving wages, benefits, and working conditions.
www.gciu.org /links.shtml   (2379 words)

  
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On May 1, 1886, Albert Parsons, leader of the Knights of Labor in Chicago, walked hand in hand with his wife at the head of a parade of 70,000 people which inaugurated the national general strike for the 8-hour day.
The IWPA was an organization that advocated workers self-management of industry as well as racial and sexual equality.
Lucy Gonzalez Parsons was an anarchist labor organizer of African, Mexican and indigenous origin, and a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World.
www.workersolidarity.org /history.html   (376 words)

  
 IWA-AIT - The 22nd Congress of the International Workers Association (IWA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
IWA-AIT - The 22nd Congress of the International Workers Association (IWA)
The 22nd Congress of the International Workers Association (IWA)
The International Workers Association (IWA) will have its 22nd Congress the 3rd (Credencials) 4th, 5th and 6th of December 2004 in Granada in Spain.
www.iwa-ait.org /congress.html   (143 words)

  
 Industrial Workers of the World | One Big Union!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In response to the University's move, on October 31, the NYU graduate workers union (GSOC/Local 2110 UAW) voted by an overwhelming 85% majority to withhold their labor in defense of the right to free association.
If Sexton's gambit to break the union is allowed to succeed and grad workers are denied a contract, the ability of working people all over the country to build and maintain power at work will be negatively impacted.
The struggle of Argentinian workers to recover factories and companies abandoned by their owners has become an inspiring model worldwide, and an important symbol that another world is possible.
www.iww.org   (1086 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS & AEROSPACE WORKERS - LOCAL 933 - TUCSON, ARIZONA - THE OLD PUEBLO
The FMLA is extraordinarily popular with workers, and businesses have found that it has a positive or neutral effect on productivity and growth.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers represents nearly a million men and women who work in more than 350 classifications or industries as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor in the commercial, manufacturing, non-manufacturing, private, public, federal, state and local government sectors of our nation's economy.
All Logos and trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners and used only for the purpose of direction to the official website logos correspond to, if your company logo appears and would like it removed please contact the websteward.
www.iam933.org   (1272 words)

  
 Records Surveys: Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local Union 40
It is one of two locals of the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association in Connecticut, covering the largest area.
Its greatest achievement was “becoming a licensed trade for the first time.” In 2002, Connecticut became the first state in the United States where sheet metal workers were licensed.
Inactive files, including minutes and correspondence from the international office (which are retired to “the safe” in the lunch room after about five years) are stored in the side room.
www.laborhistory.org /Guide/sheet.htm   (600 words)

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