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	EH.Net Encyclopedia: Labor Unions in the United States
		In the United States, state intervention was fatal for labor because government and employers usually united to crush labor radicalism.
		In Austria, France, Germany, and the United States, labor unrest contributed to the election of conservative governments; in Hungary, Italy, and Poland it led to the installation of anti- democratic dictatorships that ruthlessly crushed labor unions.
		Unions begin to decline in the US It was after World War II that American Exceptionalism became most valid, when the United States emerged as the advanced, capitalist democracy with the weakest labor movement.
	eh.net /encyclopedia/article/friedman.unions.us (9817 words)

	Labor Unions in the United States - MSN Encarta
		Labor Unions in the United States, the various labor organizations in the United States, each of which serves to consolidate, represent, and protect the rights of workers in a specific industry or trade.
		The decade of the 1870s was a period of widespread labor agitation and unrest, largely because of the distress suffered by workers after the disastrous economic crisis of 1873.
		A number of trade unions combined in 1881 to form the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada as a means of influencing legislation in behalf of labor.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576185/Labor_Unions_in_the_United_States.html (1402 words)

	Labor Unions - United States - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library
		United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing, Pipefitting and Sprinklerfitting Industry of the United States and Canada (UA)
		Community Labor News continues the tradition of workers' organizing and taking actions to create a better future for themselves and their families.
		The National Labor Committee's mission is to educate and actively engage the U.S. public on human and labor rights abuses by corporations.
	www.irle.berkeley.edu /library/index.php?page=24 (1075 words)

	Labor Unions in the United States - MSN Encarta
		Labor Unions in the United States, the various labor organizations in the United States, each of which serves to consolidate, represent, and protect the rights of workers in a specific industry or trade.
		The decade of the 1870s was a period of widespread labor agitation and unrest, largely because of the distress suffered by workers after the disastrous economic crisis of 1873.
		A number of trade unions combined in 1881 to form the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada as a means of influencing legislation in behalf of labor.
	www.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576185/Labor_Unions_in_the_United_Sates.html (1402 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Labour union
		A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers in a particular industry.
		The legal status of trade unions in the United Kingdom was established by a Royal Commission in 1867, which agreed that the establishment of the organisations was to the advantage of both employers and employees.
		Labor unions are tightly regulated and overseen by the United States Department of Labor under the authority of the National Labor Relations Act, passed in 1935.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Labour-union (2071 words)

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: Labor Unions in the United States
		In Austria, France, Germany, and the United States, labor unrest contributed to the election of conservative governments; in Hungary, Italy, and Poland it led to the installation of anti- democratic dictatorships that ruthlessly crushed labor unions.
		Unions begin to decline in the US It was after World War II that American Exceptionalism became most valid, when the United States emerged as the advanced, capitalist democracy with the weakest labor movement.
		Union decline in these industries combined with growth in heavily female public sector employments in the United States led to the femininization of the American labor movement.
	www.eh.net /encyclopedia/?article=friedman.unions.us (9817 words)

	Labor Unions - United States - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library
		United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing, Pipefitting and Sprinklerfitting Industry of the United States and Canada (UA)
		Community Labor News continues the tradition of workers' organizing and taking actions to create a better future for themselves and their families.
		The National Labor Committee's mission is to educate and actively engage the U.S. public on human and labor rights abuses by corporations.
	www.iir.berkeley.edu /library/webguides/unionsgd.html (1075 words)

	Labor unions in the United States Summary
		Labor movements are collective activities by wage and salaried workers in market societies to improve their economic, social, and political status.
		Labor unions in the United States today function as legally recognized representatives of workers in numerous industries, but are strongest among public sector employees such as teachers and police.
		Labor unions in the United States: the Mine Workers union gained after strikes in 1900 and 1902.
	www.bookrags.com /Labor_unions_in_the_United_States (212 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Unions may organize a particular section of skilled workers (craft unionism), a cross-section of workers from various trades (general unionism), or attempt to organize all workers within a particular industry (industrial unionism).
		Labor unions in the United States today function as legally recognized representatives of workers in numerous industries, but in recent years have seen their greatest growth among service sector and public sector workers.
		The legal status of trade unions in the United Kingdom was established by a Royal Commission in 1867, which agreed that the establishment of the organizations was to the advantage of both employers and employees.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=trade_unions (4056 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
		A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers...
		The President of the United States (often abbreviated POTUS) is the head of state of the United States.
		Whenever an air traffic controller is posted to a new unit or starts work on a new sector within a particular unit, he or she must undergo a period of training regarding the procedures peculiar to that particular unit and/or sector.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Professional-Air-Traffic-Controllers-Organization (941 words)

	NYU Libraries \| Reference Sources in Labor History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There is a capsule description of the AFL-CIO, national unions, government offices "serving" labor, labor studies centers, glossary of terms, a bibliography of labor periodicals, and indexes to individuals by union and state.
		Contains appendices listing unions, labor press by state, union education directors, labor schools, chronology of labor legislation, glossary of labor terms, and the constitutions of the AFL and the CIO.
		Each entry is arranged by title (except where noted in parentheses) within a topical section: [national] unions (by union), state and local (by state and then city), socialist and communist, anarchist, liberal and reform, farmer organizations, and general periodicals.
	www.nyu.edu /library/bobst/research/tam/resources (4910 words)

	Term Papers on Labor Unions In The United States - Term Papers Lab
		Labor Unions affect many different people from blue-collar workers to white-collar workers, stay-at-home moms, students, and retirees.
		Fewer; however realize the legal role Labor Unions have played and continue to play in the financial system, political affairs, and society in general.
		Labor Unions are organizations of wage earners or salary workers established for protecting their shared interests when dealing with employers.
	www.termpaperslab.com /term-papers/92631.html (459 words)

	Global Union Links
		He also serves as the president of the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
		Ten Global Union Federations (GUFs) are the international representatives of unions organizing in specific industry sectors or occupational groups.
		Labor unions are a fundamental institution for democracy and economic development.
	www.aflcio.org /aboutus/globalunions (340 words)

	www.aflcio.org - America's Union Movement
		Union members attacked and unlawfully detained at a 2003 trade rally in Miami are taking action against the Bush administration-inspired Big Brother tactics.
		The AFL-CIO and the Alliance for Retired Americans last week filed a lawsuit against Miami police and other law enforcement agencies over their excessive force and intimidation during the 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) protests.
		Ten million union members and 3 million retirees are mobilizing
	www.aflcio.org (245 words)

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