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	One Big Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The One Big Union was a concept which emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century amongst working class trade unionists.
		While attempts to organise One Big Union on militant and revolutionary lines did not succeed, the unions which made the attempt like the IWW or CNT were often successful in their own right without becoming the One Big Union.
		In Canada there was a union simply called "One Big Union." Perhaps the earliest example of an alliance of trade unions exists in the ACTU (Australia).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/One_Big_Union (273 words)

	Australian Council of Trade Unions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was one of the earliest attempts by trade unions to apply the principles of One Big Union earlier explored by more radical syndicalist unions like the CNT or revolutionary industrial unions like the IWW.
		In the Australian case, agitation for One Big Union occurred from 1911 from the revolutionary Australian section of the IWW and from the pro-arbitration Australian Workers Union (AWU).
		The ACTU's Australian trade union "peak body" precursors include state labour councils like the Victorian Trades Hall Council (originating in 1856 as the 'Melbourne Trades Hall Committee'), the Labor Council of New South Wales (originally formed in 1870 as the 'Sydney Trades and Labor Council') and the Inter-Colonial Trade Union Congress (formed in 1879).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Council_of_Trade_Unions (753 words)

	One Big Union -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The One Big Union was a concept which emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century amongst working class (A worker who belongs to a trade union) trade unionists.
		While attempts to organise One Big Union on militant and revolutionary lines did not succeed, the unions which made the attempt like the IWW or (additional info and facts about CNT) CNT were often successful in their own right without becoming the One Big Union.
		In (A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada) Canada there was a union simply called "One Big Union." Perhaps the earliest example of an alliance of trade unions exists in the (additional info and facts about ACTU) ACTU (Australia).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/on/one_big_union.htm (326 words)

	One Big Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		They decided to conduct a referendum among Canadian union members on whether to secede from the American Federation of Labor and the TRADES AND LABOR CONGRESS OF CANADA, and form a REVOLUTIONARY INDUSTRIAL UNION to be called the One Big Union.
		At its peak in 1920, the OBU had close to 50 000 members from northern Ontario to the Pacific, with other locals in eastern and central Canada and the US.
		Although by 1923 the union was reduced to approximately 5000 members, it had set an example for later, successful INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0005929 (213 words)

	Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism: Thomas L. Knapp Joins the One Big Union
		Unions, as such, are an instrument whereby employees can deal with employers on the basis of express, detailed, binding contractual language.
		My guess is that the early unions were a threat to kill their owners and steal their means of production from them, and that libertarians are wary of theft, state-backed or not.
		Some of the old establishment unions in the rust belt, I fear, could care less about plant closings or McJobs, so long as they protect their seniority rights to be the very last laid off when the last plant in the U.S. closes.
	mutualist.blogspot.com /2005/04/thomas-l-knapp-joins-one-big-union.html (2620 words)

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		The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars.
		Each part is responsible for itself except that industrial unions must not adopt rules conflicting with the general constitution, and central and job branches must not adopt rules conflicting either with these or with the by-laws of their industrial union.
		It is this direct participation in the union business, and the system of managing that business by elected union delegates on the job and job committees rather than by full-time officials or business agents, that develops the abilities of the members and makes the IWW a force with which we can organise our own future.
	fraternitelibertaire.free.fr /reserve/one_big_union_the_iww.doc (7504 words)

	One Big Union: The Philosophy of Industrial Unionism - By Joyce Kornbluh
		Blinded in one eye in a mine accident, Big Bill left the Silver City, Utah, mines at the turn of the century to become an organizer for the Western Federation of Miners and the Socialist Party.
		Suspended by his archbishop for urging Telluride miners to revolt during his tour of Colorado mining camps in 1903, his formal association with the church ended at this time, although he insisted that be was still a priest in good standing.
		In this way, when the "one big strike" was called, and won, the I.W.W. would have control of each of the major industries of the country.
	www.lucyparsonsproject.org /iww/kornbluh_one_big_union.html (2602 words)

	Chapter 17: The One Big Union (OBU) and the Ship Painters and Dockers Union
		At the Union’s July half-yearly meeting in 1918, it was reported to a meeting that the Labor Council was considering "reorganisation" generally related to One Big Union proposals and McDonald and Byrnes moved that the Labor Council be asked to send delegates to address the Union on the scheme.
		After this, there was no meeting of the Union until March, the reason being found in a report at that meeting to the effect that the proposed OBU conference had to be postponed owing to the Influenza Restrictions.
		A proposal by the WWF to form a Transport and Communications Department of the OBU was reported to a meeting in October, 1925, together with advice that the Federal Council was sending delegates to a conference on the matter.
	www.takver.com /history/myunion/myunion17.htm (2249 words)

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		Since the IWW was founded in 1905, we have recognized the need to build a truly international union movement in order to confront the global power of the bosses and in order to stand in solidarity with our fellow workers no matter what part of the globe they happen to live on.
		We are a union open to all workers, whether or not the IWW happens to have representation rights in your workplace.
		Because the IWW is a democratic, member-run union, the decisions about what issues to address and what tactics are pursued are made by the workers directly involved.
	www.cc.utah.edu /~cal13/IWW.html (227 words)

	Peo Monoldi, "Why Building Workers Must Organize in the One Big Union!"
		In the case of craft unions with some fight still left in the local members, the forces for the destruction of craft unionism in the building industry have been recruited and are being maintained.
		We want one union in the building industry to care for and advance the interests of all building workers regardless of what each one does, and each group for all and all for each, not some for the bosses and some for themselves as in the past.
		Be in One Big Union, embracing all building workmen, or in one disorganized, struggling mass unable to help ourselves or to assist others.
	www.marxists.org /history/usa/unions/iww/undated/monoldi.htm (4140 words)

	Industrial Workers of the World \| One Big Union! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As a union member, they will no longer be subject to the whims and unilateral decisions of their bosses.
		The decision of NYU President John Sexton to withdraw union recognition from graduate employees represents an affront to the dignity of those workers and belies any notion that NYU is some sort of enlightened institution.
		The education system, the media, religious institutions, and the labor movement itself have all failed to properly draw attention to the importance of unions or even accurately portray what a union is. First of all then, I'll share some thoughts on unions to illustrate why I believe the workers' cause at NYU deserves your support.
	www.iww.org (1648 words)

	Soviet-Empire.com Archive :: View topic - A World Workers Union? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I am aware unions are a tool of the system, but a world wide unification of working class (or mostly) could be useful indeed.
		The IWW differs sharply from the position of other unions in that, we believe the problems of the working class can not be solved by begging crumbs from employers or praying to politicians for favors.
		Unions today are mostly collaborating with the bourgeouis...The Union leaders are payed as much as CEOs...They don't represent the workers...becasue there is a lack of communists in those Unions.
	www.politicsforum.org /soviet/viewtopic.php?t=3602 (909 words)

	"One Big Union", 1919
		Transcriber's Note: This is the 1919 version of the "One Big Union" pamphlet, originally written by William E. Trautmann and published by Charles H. Kerr and Co. in 1912.
		But a truck driver, who may haul a big shipment of boxes containing garments from one depot to another, and on his next trip between depots, will haul a load of nails for further transportation or distribution, performs the work of a transport worker, and as such organizers in the union of that industry.
		When the workers organize industrial unions, copied from the institutions in which they are employed, they will be able to stand together as powerful industrial combinations in their skirmishes for better working conditions in any one industry.
	www.workerseducation.org /crutch/pamphlets/obu1919.html (7297 words)

	Parties to the Award, Introduction, page 11
		A congress of 79 unions was held in Sydney in 1918 and the Labor Council's proposal for 'One Big Union', based on the proposals of the Industrial Workers of the World, was endorsed.
		The proposed 'One Big Union' was to be known as the Workers' Industrial Union of Australia.
		Yet, as a result of dissent by the Australian Workers' Union (which continued to see itself as the aspiring 'One Big Union') and dwindling enthusiasm by many other unions, only one Department of the Workers' Industrial Union of Australia was ever officially launched.
	www.atua.org.au /ptta/011.html (622 words)

	Nurses-Meeting-President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Connors, who grew up and was educated in nursing in Manitoba, said her goodbyes Friday as head of the 120,000-member federation - the umbrella group for nurses' unions in each province - by thanking nurses across the country for inspiring her.
		Connors, now an Ottawa resident, said she envisions "one big union" for nurses, rather than each province having its own union.
		Her union activities, including serving as a local president in the Manitoba Nurses Union and working on bargaining committees, started as soon as she entered nursing.
	www.cp.org /premium/ONLINE/member/health/030606/x060619A.html (343 words)

	BRIA(17:2) The Wobblies, Unions, Workers Strike, Lubbites, General Ludd, Industrial Revolution, Globalization, Workers ...
		Most unions were organized for skilled craft workers like carpenters and machinists.
		Big Bill Haywood and most other Wobblies believed the war was a capitalist plot to increase their profits.
		Labor unions and other groups argue that worker rights should be part of these rules.
	www.crf-usa.org /bria/bria17_2.htm (6103 words)

	One Big Union : A History of the Australian Workers Union 1886-1994 by Ian Cambridge [ISBN: 0521551382] - Find Cheap ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		From its beginnings as a sheep shearers' union, it became known as a champion of compulsory arbitration, fighting for improvements in wages and conditions through the industrial courts.
		In the first part of the twentieth century it expanded by amalgamating with other unions, its aim being the creation of 'one big union'.
		This comprehensive and compelling book shows that the union has been a player in key events and crises in Australian history, including the great strikes of the 1890s, the 1916-17 conscription crisis, Labor's splits in the 1950s and the 1956 shearers' strike.
	www.gettextbooks.com /isbn_0521551382.html (183 words)

	One Big Union
		The National Union is different from most unions; it has a federated structure - in effect, it's a union of unions.
		Between conventions, the National Union's governing body is the National Executive Board, which comes from the leadership of all the components.
		The National Union structure is built on the autonomy and identity of components, while providing the benefits of belonging to a National Union.
	www.nupge.ca /big_union.html (704 words)

	Civilization.ca - Canadian labour history, 1850-1999 - 1919: radical solutions
		The One Big Union was organized in an effort to unite all workers in a single union that would promote its interests by means of strikes.
		While it tried to convince Canadians that it did not support revolutionary means to achieve its goals, government and business leaders painted the One Big Union as a Bolshevik menace, and claimed that it threatened the safety of the country.
		Extract from the official stenographic record of the proceedings at the Western Canada Labor Conference at Calgary last March, where the One Big Union movement was launched by labor delegates from all western cities, including 29 from Winnipeg.
	www.civilization.ca /hist/labour/labv21e.html (276 words)

	MANY RACES, ONE UNION! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		For radicals alienated by the brutalities and racism of South African capitalism, the segregationist reformism of the South African Labour Party, and the sectionalism of the craft unions, the IWW vision was attractive.
		A second crippling blow against the local IWW came from within: in early 1912, the union was hijacked by members of a local socialist sect intent on setting a "workers' party," and Dunbar was expelled.
		It called for One Big Union, and its constitution included a version of the IWW Preamble: "Whereas the interest of the workers and those of the employers are opposed to each other.
	www.circlealpha.com /library/iww_africa.html (2273 words)

	The Pawtucket Times - News - 05/15/2003 - Out to lunch: School cafeteria workers hold one-day strike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The rally was part of a one-day strike by the lunch workers’ union that resulted in a day off for 9,800 Pawtucket public school students after teachers threatened to honor the picket line.
		Local 217 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, which represents 98 lunch workers, is locked in bitter contract negotiations with Sodexho, the school district’s food-service firm.
		Donna Ridge, a member of the union’s negotiating committee, said the disruption to schools was the fault of Sodexho.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=8017938&BRD=1713&PAG=461&dept_id=24491&rfi=6 (804 words)

	Mining history of the Sandon area
		However, this picture of the Big Boulder and the two men was soon in print in papers all around North America, and tales of gigantic boulders of solid silver in the fabulous Slocan district began to spread like wildfire.
		The WFM was one of the most militant unions in the United States, and its president was a socialist.
		At the same time, however, the union was busy back in the downtown core, erecting a beautiful two-storey building that housed a spacious gymnasium, union offices, a library and a large auditorium on the main floor.
	www.slocanlake.com /sandon/mining/mining.html (4914 words)

	One Big Union of the I.W.W.
		The destructive battles of trade unions, divided up in factions and sections that find their traditional base in the middle ages, will not turn back the wheel that rolls on with irresistible and crushing force.
		The several sections of any given industrial union are thus put in the position where the workers can accomplish the maximum benefit for themselves, and are qualified to render the greatest support to their associated sections in the industrial union and to any other set (or sets) of workers as well.
		In the industrial union movement alone will the workers forge the instrument, and train themselves for the use of all and every industrial weapon that can be utilized in their struggle for a better world.
	www.marxists.org /history/usa/unions/iww/1924/obu-iww.htm (7084 words)

	One Big Union
		This General Labourers Union, or whatever it may be its baptismal name, will consequently overshadow all the old skilled and semi-skilled craft and industrial unions, and wrest organised power from them.
		It is, surely, clear to all that the struggle to retain power will force the skilled unions to carry the amalgamation process a stage or two further on towards the One Big Union for All.
		Another factor – the main one – making for the One Union is the process of trustification at present evolving very rapidly towards One Big Trust of all British industries… Trustification means specialisation of the various works in an industry.
	www.marxists.org /archive/maclean/works/1920-obu.htm (545 words)

	'One Big Union' Still Relevant Today \| General Distribution Workers Industrial Union 660 \| Department 600 - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		There are not many unions that go out of their way to organize workers at independent coffee shops and bookstores these days, and there are even fewer unions that young people think of as cool.
		Joe Hill and other prominent Wobblies were executed and murdered, and the union's locals in many parts of the country were broken up.
		Among those present will be the granddaughter of a Wisconsin IWW organizer and others who can tell the story of the One Big Union.
	www.iww.org /en/node/879 (586 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - William "Big Bill" Haywood
		One of the foremost labor radicals of the American West, "Big Bill" Haywood became a leading figure in labor activities across the United States.
		Haywood rose quickly in the union ranks, becoming secretary and president of his local, joining the national union's General Executive Board in 1900, and editing the union's magazine and serving as secretary-treasurer in 1901.
		The defeat of the strikes led Haywood to stress the need for "one big union" which could bring broader support to individual labor struggles; accordingly, in 1905 he played a key role in the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), commonly referred to as "the Wobblies."
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/d_h/haywood.htm (546 words)

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