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	National Labor Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Labor Union sought instead to bring together all of the national labor organizations in existence, as well as the "eight hour leagues" established to press for the eight-hour workday, to create a national federation that could press for labor reforms and help found national unions in those areas where none existed.
		The National Labor Union was the first national labor federation in the United States.
		The National Labor Union followed the unsuccessful efforts of labor activists to form a national coalition of local trade unions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Labor_Union (472 words)

	Trade union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Activity by labor unions in the United States today centers on collective bargaining over wages, benefits, and working conditions for their membership and on representing their members if management attempts to violate contract provisions.
		Labor unions in the past have been infiltrated by members of organized crime, such as the Mafia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labor_union (3550 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Events in U.S. Labor History
		The Knights of Labor forms in Philadelphia as a secret society; it becomes a national labor union in 1878.
		The National Labor Union is organized in Baltimore to push for an 8-hour workday.
		Congress exempts labor unions from antitrust laws and affirms their right to strike by passing the Clayton Antitrust Act.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461544531/Events_in_U_S_Labor_History.html (849 words)

	MSN Encarta - National Labor Relations Act
		It required labor unions desiring to use the facilities of the NLRB to file certain organizational and financial data with the NLRB, and it required the officers of such unions to file affidavits certifying that they are not members of the Communist Party.
		The Taft-Hartley Act also prohibited the checkoff of union dues without the written consent of employees; contributions by employers to union health and welfare funds not under joint labor-management administration; and contributions and expenditures by unions in connection with federal elections, primaries, and conventions.
		National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), federal law enacted by the United States Congress in July 1935 to govern the labor-management relations of business firms engaged in interstate commerce.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573039/National_Labor_Relations_Act.html (604 words)

	MD Labor History 1865-1930
		In 1872, the National Labor Union transformed itself into the National Labor Reform Party.
		Their doctrine of class struggle was not to become a principle of the labor movement as a whole, but the efforts of the Wobblies called attention to the desperate needs of vast numbers of workers, many of them immigrants, to whom the trade union movement was not relevant.
		Labor was in high demand to fill new occupations, and the industrial labor force nearly tripled--to 8 million workers--between 1880 and 1910.
	oriole.umd.edu /~mddlmddl/791/labor/html/industrial.html (2089 words)

	Socialist Organizer: The Labor Party
		William Sylvis was chosen as national president, and in the eyes of his contemporaries, the National Labor Union appeared to be crossing a threshold to a new era (Grossman: 226).
		In the process of union building, William Sylvis and the National Labor Union were compelled to confront the complications of gender and race and class in the United States.
		The vote by the union convention delegates, nonetheless, indicated a growing commitment to the importance of internationalism on the part of Sylvis and the labor federation.
	www.theorganizer.org /LP/USHistory/Sylvis.html (3720 words)

	Union History
		The National Labor Union (NLU), a federation of national and local unions and of city federations, was founded in 1866.
		Unions took advantage, however, of the high rate of employment, the relative scarcity of labor, and the tremendous industrial expansion during the war years to increase their ranks.
		The revelations of the Senate committee, however, intensified public hostility toward organized labor and created additional support for state right-to-work laws banning the union-shop agreement and for federal legislation subjecting union finances to public audit.
	www.uawtmmk.com /UnionHis.htm (4578 words)

	Early History of the Labor Movement
		It was also during this time that the National Labor Union, the first nationwide federation of unions was formed.
		The Knights of Labor, the predecessor of the American Federation of Labor, was also formed during this period.
		Labor organization came early to the America -- virtually as soon as working people stepped off the boats from Europe.
	www.ualocal38.org /histlab.htm (276 words)

	Unit One: 1600-1763
		Labor Unions, such as the National Labor Union and the Knights of Labor, were created in order to establish forums for workers to express discontent.
		National Labor Union, William Sylvis: In 1866, acting on his dream of a nationwide association to represent all workers.
		Sylvis called a convention in Baltimore that formed the National Labor Union (NLU).
	www.priorlake-savage.k12.mn.us /sh/social/mestnik/id25.htm (1148 words)

	[Regents Prep U.S. History] Human Systems & Society: Response of Labor
		Although the National Labor Union failed to convince Congress to shorten the workday, its efforts made the public aware of labor issues.
		The National Labor Union was a group of farmers and reformers that wanted Congress to pass labor reforms.
		Under the leadership of Samuel Gompers, the A F of L tried to reform the length of the work day and child labor laws, and also tried to protect the independence and rights of other existing unions.
	regentsprep.org /Regents/ushisgov/themes/humansystems/responseoflabor.cfm (887 words)

	National Labor Union -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The General and Municipal Workers' Union was formed in 1924 by the merger of the National Union of Gas and General Workers, the National Amalgamated Union of Labour, and the Municipal Employees' Association.
		Non-profit group representing businesses, labor unions, consumer groups, religious groups, and primary care providers dedicated to improving health care quality, cost, and access in the United States.
		Information on the National Farmers Union at London promoting the interests of its members and their businesses.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9001056 (866 words)

	TN71.htm
		The first efforts of unification were made by such organizations as the National Labor Union and the Knights of Labor.
		The National labor Union was the first national labor organization of the post Civil War Days.
		The Knights of Labor was originally organized as a local, secret labor union established in Philadelphia in 1869 through the efforts of Uriah S. Stephens, a clothing cutter.
	www.kckpl.lib.ks.us /kscoll/lochist/thennow/TN71.htm (689 words)

	Today in History: August 20
		Although the National Labor Union failed to persuade Congress to shorten the workday, its efforts heightened public awareness of labor issues and increased public support for labor reform in the 1870s and 1880s.
		A coalition of skilled and unskilled workers, farmers, and reformers, the National Labor Union was created to pressure Congress to enact labor reforms.
		Samuel Gompers in 1886.Whereas the Knights of Labor aimed at legislative reforms including the eight-hour day and child labor laws, the American Federation of Labor focused on protecting the autonomy and established privileges of individual craft unions.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/today/aug20.html (941 words)

	Union Plus National Labor College Scholarship for Labor Union Members & Leaders
		With the National Labor College at the George Meany Center for Labor Studies in Silver Spring, MD, American's unions have their own college: a national center that provides continuous labor education for all union activists.
		Union Plus National Labor College Scholarship for Labor Union Members and Leaders
		NOTE: The Union Plus National Labor College Scholarship applies only to dues-paying union members or staff employees of an AFL-CIO affiliated organization interested in enrolling in the National Labor College.
	www.unionplus.org /benefits/education/scholarships/nlcs.cfm (285 words)

	National labor relations act - Rules and Regulations - The Act
		National Labor Relations Board Charges Cintas with Serious Offenses a company that is a repeat offender and continues to act as if it is above the law.
		National Labor Relations Act, 1935 Also cited NLRA or the Act; 29 USC Sec.
		HyperWar: US Government Manual--1945 [National Labor Relations Board]
	actively.siteslinks.com /sil/actively-national-labor-relations-act.htm (243 words)

	Chronology 1
		Craft workers and political reformers organize the National Labor Union in Baltimore.
		Mar. 7: The Knights of St. Crispin, a national organization for shoemakers, organizes in Milwaukee.
		Furniture workers and locomotive firemen organize national unions.
	www.history.umd.edu /Gompers/chron1.htm (681 words)

	SparkNotes: The Gilded Age & the Progressive Era (1877–1917): The Labor Movement: 1866–1894
		Though the National Labor Union was not affiliated with any particular political party, it generally supported any candidate who would fight for shorter workdays, higher wages, and better working conditions.
		The first large-scale U.S. union was the National Labor Union, founded in 1866 to organize skilled and unskilled laborers, farmers, and factory workers.
		The union united skilled and unskilled laborers in the countryside and cities in one group.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/gildedage/section3.rhtml (606 words)

	LABOR HISTORY TIMELINE
		The National Labor Union formed by printers, machinists and stone cutters with a goal of a cooperative society.
		National Labor Union transforms itself into the National Labor Reform Party (disappeared in the depression of 1873).
		The National Trades' Union formed by workers in 5 cities but it was dissolved during the financial decline in 1837.
	www.ll834.org /labor_history_timeline.htm (2551 words)

	Chapter 15 - Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining
		The labor union developed as a means by which individuals could unite and have the collective power to accomplish goals that could not be accomplished alone.
		-originally sought to promote national union of both skilled and unskilled workers
		In general, however, when workers today choose to unionize, it is for the same frustration with management over issues such as wages, benefits, or fair treatment that caused their grandparents to unionize.
	www.cbi.msstate.edu /faculty/ghcook/Chapter15.htm (1684 words)

	Kate Mullany House -- NRHP Travel Itinerary
		Mullany herself gained national recognition in 1868, when National Labor Union President William Sylvis made her the first female appointed to a labor union's national office.
		Even though the women laborers of Lowell, Massachusetts and elsewhere had been organizing unions to protest working conditions and wages since the 1840s, early women's unions often only lasted as long as the particular issue under debate.
		The origins of Kate Mullany's union date back to the 1820s, when entrepreneurs established the nation's first commercial laundry in Troy to wash, starch, and iron a local invention, the "detachable collar." By the 1860s, Troy supplied most of America's detachable collars and cuffs, employing over 3,700 women launderers, starchers, and ironers.
	www.cr.nps.gov /NR/travel/pwwmh/ny18.htm (317 words)

	National Labor Laws
		representation by trade unions and can make it more difficult for workers to turn to national labor laws to address their concerns.
		The Court agreed and, in a series of opinions, gave a tortured interpretation of the national labor laws to limit the agency fees that could be assessed to the nonmembers' pro rata share of the cost...
		The goal of this agreement is to improve labor conditions and promote the enforcement of national labor laws in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
	www.laborlawusa.com /nationallaborlaws (1131 words)

	Oregon Nurses Association
		United American Nurses, our national labor union, is a federation of state nurses associations with active labor programs.
		ONA members from bargaining units throughout Oregon represent ONA as elected delegates to the annual UAN National Labor Assembly.
		03/16/05 - UAN National Labor Assembly passes historic 2005 resolutions
	www.oregonrn.org /displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=211 (232 words)

	SEIU.org
		The new Nurse Alliance of SEIU, a national organization created by and for nurses, is launching the Value Care, Value Nurses campaign to raise standards for the nursing profession and improve the quality of patient care in our nationâs hospitals by bringing nurses back to the bedside.
		For the first time since janitors at the Univ. of Miami began their struggle to improve their lives by forming a union, the University has acknowledged its direct responsibility for the wages and working conditions of workers on its campus.
		Two waves of janitors at the Coral Gables Campus went on strike against cleaning contractor Unicco to protest unfair labor practices committed against its janitors who are organizing for a living wage and affordable health care.
	www.seiu.org (565 words)

	MPR: Minnesota labor split on national labor split
		Now, it stands to be the larger of two national labor groups.
		MPR: Minnesota labor split on national labor split
		The SEIU is one of the nation's fastest growing unions.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2005/07/29_kelleherb_laborrift (782 words)

	[PRISONACT] Missouri Prison Labor Union Calls Boycott
		The Missouri Prisoners Labor Union also announced on August 14th that it was formally endorsing an international boycott initiated by Prison Moratorium Project against all products-services produced either directly or indirectly by Sodexho Marriott Services (SMS).
		The MPLU is a legally chartered union by the state of Missouri, but has not thus far been recognized by Colgate (who contacts labor to the Missouri DOC) nor the DOC.
		On March 28, 1998, the French multinational Sodexho Alliance (SA) took over the North American operations of Marriott Management Services from the Marriott Group.
	www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/2000-October/003188.html (526 words)

	Catholic woman was labor pioneer
		The success of the Collar Laundry Union led to Miss Mullaney's appointment as the assistant secretary of the National Labor Union.
		According to the National Historic Site application, that strike for higher wages was unsuccessful because the collar manufacturers united with the laundry owners to kill the union.
		So the parishioner of St. Peter's Church in Troy organized the first long-lasting, all-female labor union when she was 19.
	www.evangelist.org /archive/hm/0903mull.htm (703 words)

	National Labor Relations Act NLRA Union Organizing Fisher Phillips Employment Attorneys Law
		National Labor Relations Act NLRA Union Organizing Fisher Phillips Employment Attorneys Law
		The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) - Union Organizing
		In addition, we will briefly explain some of the techniques used by unions to organize employees, and what management should and should not do to show employees that union representation is not in their best interests.
	www.laborlawyers.com /FSL5CS/booklets/booklets330.asp (127 words)

	National Labor Union Requested an Eight-Hour Workday
		On August 20, 1866, the National Labor Union, made up of skilled and unskilled workers, farmers, and reformers, called on Congress to order an eight-hour workday.
		The National Labor Union was created to pressure Congress to make labor law reforms.
		The Union failed to persuade Congress to shorten the workday and the labor organization itself dissolved in 1873.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/recon/workday_1 (133 words)

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