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	Trade union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A union (labor union in American English; trade union in British English and Australian English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is an organisation formed by workers.
		Most labor unions in the United States are members of a larger umbrella organization, the AFL-CIO, or the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations.
		Unions for public sector workers are governed by labor laws and labor boards in each of the 50 states; in many states, typically those in the north, these laws and boards are modeled after the NLRA and the NLRB.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labor_union (3136 words)

	Encyclopedia: Organized labor
		The compulsory In organized labor, a hiring hall is an organization, usually under the auspices of a labor union, which has the responsibility of furnishing new recruits for employers who have a collective bargaining agreement with the union.
		Democratic Party, the labor movement is by no means monolithic on that point; the The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, commonly known as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) or simply the Teamsters, is one of the largest labor unions in the United States.
		Republican Party candidates on a number of occasions and the The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was a labor union which formerly represented air traffic controllers and weather observers in the United States in matters relating to wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Organized-labor (6206 words)

	Trade union -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Many consider it an issue of fairness that workers be allowed to pool their resources in a special legal entity in a similar way to the pooling of capital resources in the form of (A business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state) corporations.
		Most labor unions in the United States are members of a larger umbrella organization, the (The largest federation of North American labor unions; formed in 1955) AFL-CIO, or the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations.
		The largest organization of trade union members in the world is the Brussels-based (Click link for more info and facts about International Confederation of Free Trade Unions) International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which today has 231 affiliated organisations in 150 countries and territories, with a combined membership of 158 million.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/trade_union.htm (2447 words)

	Labor union
		A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British 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.
		Labor Unions in the US Most labor unions in the United States are members of the AFL-CIO, or the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations.
		Some countries such as Sweden have strong, centralized unions, where every type of work has a specific union, which are then gathered in large national unions.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/la/labor_union.html (1237 words)

	Buttermilk & Molasses: ORGANIZED LABOR NEEDS A GOOD MOVEMENT
		Organized labor in the United States died sometime between the discovery of its close ties to organized crime in the late 1950s and the near-collapse of the U.S. coal and steel industries in the 1980s.
		Not that I've got a problem with unions or organized labor -- I am a beneficiary of the late 19th and early 20th Century transformation in workers' rights, which included child labor laws, increased health and safety regulations, shorter workdays and workweeks, minimum wage (well, that's a bit of a joke...).
		As the AFL-CIO fractures, and new splinter organizations emerge to represent the rights of American workers, I hope the amount of energy given by organized labor to the world of politics begins to shift in the direction of the workers themselves.
	floricane.typepad.com /buttermilk/2005/07/organized_labor.html (971 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ecuador - Organized Labor \| Ecuadorian or Ecuadoran Information Resource
		Labor called two national strikes in 1987, a one-day stoppage on March 25 to protest rises in gasoline and transportation prices and a second strike on October 28 to demand the ouster of the minister of government and justice.
		In contrast to growing tension between organized labor and government, the number of conflicts and strikes centered on collective bargaining issues with the private sector declined during the 1980s.
		Analysts attributed the decline to the increasing reluctance of the average worker to risk his or her job in the face of rising unemployment and a deteriorating economy.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/ecuador/ecuador56.html (443 words)

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