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	Trade union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since the publication of the History of Trade Unionism (1894) by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, the predominant historical view is that a trade union "...is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment" (Webb).
		Trade unions are often accused of benefiting the insider workers, those having a secure job and high productivity, at the cost of the outsider workers, those who are unemployed or at the risk of unemployment or who are not able to get the job that they want in a particular field.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trade_unionist (3136 words)

	Trade union -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Trade unions are often accused to benefit the insider workers, those having a secure job and high productivity, at the cost of the outsider workers, those who are unemployed or at the risk of unemployment or who are not able to get the job that they want.
		The legal status of trade unions in the United Kingdom was established by a (Click link for more info and facts about Royal Commission) Royal Commission in 1867, which agreed that the establishment of the organisations was to the advantage of both employers and employees.
		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)

	The modern trade unionist - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		DANNY Roberts' vision of the trade union leader of the 21st century is not confined to the image of the militant figure manning the picket line, fist raised in defiance, bullhorn in tow.
		Although he concedes that there are trade unionists taking advantage of opportunities to upgrade their training, Roberts notes that it has been a long time since the unions have gone directly into the universities to recruit leadership.
		Trade unions, she says, will have to be innovative and use such avenues as their community organisations as the focal point for informing and organising their membership.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20030803T000000-0500_47102_OBS_THE_MODERN_TRADE_UNIONIST.asp (1215 words)

	Derek Simpson (trade unionist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Derek Simpson (born 1944-12-23) is the General Secretary of the Amicus trade union.
		He was involved in the negotiation that let to the Warwick Agreement, in which the Labour Party agreed to implement some of the trade unions' policies during their third term.
		As the leader of one of the so-called "big four" unions, Derek Simpson enjoys significant influence within the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party, particularly as Amicus is predicted to merge with two of the other big four unions, the TGWU and the GMB.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derek_Simpson_(trade_unionist) (445 words)

	Trade unionist murdered.
		One of the three, a 23-year-old, had been elected as a trade union representative this summer.
		This sort of crime is extremely unusual in Sweden, and the trade unions are upset by this violent murder.
		Trade union leaders have been threatened by these criminal groups.
	www.dagensarbete.se /home/da/home.nsf/unid/5407878DA31D969E41256814005935DF?OpenDocument (161 words)

	The trade unionist of the 1990s?
		The face of UK trade unionism is changing, according to evidence published by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Trade unionists today (August 1997), based on analysis of the autumn 1996 Labour Force Survey.
		In the past, according to the TUC, the typical UK trade unionist was once generally portrayed as a "cloth-capped, beer-swilling, old-fashioned stereotype", working in manufacturing.
		Today's typical trade unionist, by contrast, is a person whom the TUC labels "Dan from Durham" - a (male) doctor or lawyer in his 40s, working full time and living in the North of England.
	www.eiro.eurofound.ie /1997/12/Feature/UK9712184F.html (1064 words)

	Interview with Diego Escobar, a Colombian Trade Unionist
		We would like to express our respect for the brave struggle of these trade unionists in Colombia who are paying with their lives for their commitment to the struggle of the working class.
		The situation for the trade unions in Colombia is really complicated due to the alliance between the national oligarchy, the stockbrokers and the multinational corporations.
		Their strategy is to depict the trade unions as the social and political lever of the guerrilla groups within the civil society.
	www.marxist.com /Latinam/colombia_interview_Escobar.html (1248 words)

	TRADE UNIONIST FACING TRUMPED UP CHARGES : Melbourne Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nearly a year later 18 trade unionists were charged and brought before the courts.
		The bosses feel that if they are successful at making an example of one militant trade unionist, by sending him to jail, it will serve as a message to others.
		All trade unionists and concerned members of the community are encouraged to support Craig Johnston and attend the Mass Rally on Monday the 10th of May outside the County Court.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /print.php?id=66505 (620 words)

	UNI : Trade Unionist and bodyguard killed in Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This latest assassination adds to the previous 147 trade unionists that have been killed this year and UNI has written to the President of Colombia, Andres Pastrana Arango to once again condemn the latest brutal murders.
		Our sources inform us that the AUC believed that Aury Sara Marrungo was a ELN commander, which was not the case, he was a trade unionist for the oil workers and was wrongly murdered.
		UNI has requested that the President of Colombia takes a stand and eliminates the assassination of trade unionists in Colombia as a matter of urgency.
	www.union-network.org /uniindep.nsf/f0fa5a094742095ac125680000253538/8580f26e70e6c5d1c1256b1b0047d3f8?OpenDocument (166 words)

	Obituary for a trade unionist
		There is a lot more crime and a flourishing drug trade.
		Like Michael's father I learnt a lot from my time in the army - about comradeship and what can be achieved when working together - tho' unlike him I must say I have never believed governments nor liked taking orders without being convinced they were correct.
		I do well know, however, how much was achieved by trade union action in the years following the end of WW2 - but how, at the same time, many of the hopes we shared during the war were dashed in the ensuing Cold War - which followed so soon after 1945....
	www.marxmail.org /archives/May99/obituary.htm (1724 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Reg Birch: Engineer, Trade Unionist, Communist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This biography of Reg Birch, trade unionist and communist, written to mark the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his death, is much more than the story of one individual, however great.
		It is hard to think of any other trade union leader of Birch's stature in the twentieth century, his sharp, cultured intellect and fierce organisational powers were unique in combination and the author should be congratulated for bringing them to our attention.
		Trade unionists and social historians will find this a major and highly enjoyable read.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0947967338 (749 words)

	Veteran trade unionist dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Johannesburg - Legendary communist and trade unionist, Ray Simons, died in Cape Town on Sunday night, the SA Communist Party said in a statement.
		She was active in the Communist Party and trade union movement in Cape Town from the 1930s.
		Simons was elected a member of the political bureau of the Communist Party in 1938 and served on this structure until the party's banning in 1950.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1588134,00.html (377 words)

	Lenin: 1901/witbd: Trade-Unionist Politics And Social-Democratic Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Even in the most advanced countries of Europe it can still be seen that the exposure of abuses in some backward trade, or in some forgotten branch of domestic industry, serves as a starting-point for the awakening of class-consciousness, for the beginning of a trade union struggle, and for the spread of socialism.
		As a matter of fact, the exposures merely dealt with the relations between the workers in a given trade and their employers, and all they achieved was that the sellers of labour power learned to sell their “commodity” on better terms and to fight the purchasers over a purely commercial deal.
		This struggle is necessarily a trade union struggle, because working conditions differ greatly in different trades, and, consequently, the struggle to improve them can only be conducted on the basis of trade organisations (in the Western countries, through trade unions; in Russia, through temporary trade associations and through leaflets, etc.).
	www.marxists.org /archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/iii.htm (12474 words)

	Sara Cifuentes Ortiz: Life as a Trade Unionist in Colombia
		The government did not take seriously the very grave human rights situation affecting trade unionists in Colombia and did not make any real commitment to fight against paramilitaries who are responsible for the vast majority of the assassinations of trade union leaders.
		As for trade union activity, the year 2001 was exemplary, in that tremendous efforts were made to create unity and strengthen the struggle.
		Being a trade unionist has become a high-risk occupation and trade unionists frequently have to pay with their own lives.
	www.counterpunch.org /ortiz1203.html (1243 words)

	Though still limited, Trade unionist work provides Yemeni woman job opportunity, protection - Yemen Times
		This is the present case in Yemen despite the fact that trade unionist activity in general is still weak and of limited sphere, especially by the mass organizations.
		The report, a copy of which the Yemen Times received, says the proportion of women participation in branches of general federation of trade unions in governorates reaches to ten percent and their participation in the central council of the trade union federation there are 11 women out of a total number of 115 male members.
		Thus pops a dire need for strengthening women role in trade unionist bodies for the protection of their rights in both practical and general life.
	www.yementimes.com /article.shtml?i=634&p=business&a=2 (423 words)

	Open World Conference of Workers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		An open letter from Ecuadoran trade unionists to the participants and to the trade unionists that are preparing the first Social Forum of the Americas in Quito, Ecuador in July 2004.
		A delegation of 12 trade unionists, members of the CGT, FO and SUD, bearers of resolutions from 26 trade unions, supported on this date by 600 signatures, was received at the office of the President of the Republic in Paris.
		A delegation of 12 trade unionists adherents of the CGT, FO and the SUD, bearers of resolutions from 26 trade unions, supported by 600 signatures, was received at the offices of the President of the republic on Wednesday, June 23, at 11.30 a.m.
	www.owcinfo.org /ILC/NEWS/ILC_86.html (5627 words)

	Renegade Article 2659 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On June 7, 1998, close to 200 trade union delegates from 36 countries met in Geneva to counter global capital's assault on working people the world over and to promote a fightback in defense of trade union rights.
		A central concern expressed by all the trade union delegates in Geneva was the growing threat to the independence of the trade unions on all continents.
		They proposed a conference in the year 2000 in response to a United Nations Summit, to be convened in June of that year at the behest of the IMF and WTO with the explicit purpose of advancing the integration-cooptation agenda of the multinationals.
	fornits.com /renegade/peaars.cgi?fetch=2659 (1359 words)

	UK TRADE UNIONIST RUNS SA WORKSHOPS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jim Mowatt passes on his skills as a privatisation negotiator JIM Mowatt, national secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union in the UK, has been conducting workshops with local unions on how to negotiate with an employer in a transition from public to private sector.
		Mowatt, a veteran trade unionist, realises that the move from public to private sector has various implications.
		That is the nature of trade unions it is difficult to strike that balance.
	www.queensu.ca /msp/pages/In_The_News/2000/July/Trade.htm (520 words)

	afrol News - Senegalese govt becomes more anti-trade unionist
		In March the intentional arson attack on the Labour Exchange led to the death of one trade unionist.\"
		The ICFTU report strongly condemns the harsher attitudes towards trade unions demonstrated by the Senegalese government during the year surveyed; 2002.
		In January 2002, \"manoeuvres by President Abdoulaye Wade to undermine the trade union movement\" had caused a split within the national centre affiliated to the ICFTU, the Confédération Nationale des Travailleurs du Sénégal (CNTS), through the creation of the so-called \'Force for Change\' (CNTS-FC).
	www.afrol.com /articles/12852 (771 words)

	Kingdom of Cambodia: The killing of trade unionist Chea Vichea
		His work as a trade unionist was also closely linked with his opposition political activities dating back to the 1990s.
		Another trade union leader – Ros Sovannareth, a steering committee member of the Free Trade Union of Workers and President of the Trinunngal Komara garment factory union – was shot and killed on 7 May 2004.
		The killing of prominent trade union leader and government critic Chea Vichea is the most recent in a long line of politically motivated killings, followed by inconclusive investigations and prosecutions plagued by irregularities.
	www.amnestyusa.org /news/document.do?id=2C888297FEB3AFAC80256F4E0047AC25 (6711 words)

	afrol News - Senegalese govt becomes more anti-trade unionist
		On 7 March, about 100 guards from the private security firm Sen Sécurité were demonstrating in front of the President\'s palace, protesting against their difficult working conditions and for the right to join a union.
		Four trade unionists were seriously burnt in the fire and one of them, Moussa Aw, died in hospital from his burns on 31 March.
		Although there are severe restrictions, the Labour Code recognises the right of workers to form or join trade unions, and any group of workers in a similar trade or the same profession may create a union.
	www.afrol.com /printable_article/12852 (724 words)

	Trade unionist who could be next president
		The trade unionist hardly bothered to campaign in the week before the referendum.
		As secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Mr Tsvangirai, 48, draws his strength from his 700,000 union members.
		But as he climbed the trade union ladder he abandoned his political role and eventually led the congress away from the one-party embrace of Zanu-PF.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/02/16/wzim216.html (435 words)

	Colombian trade unionist abducted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LONDON — Trade union activist Roberth Canarte Montealegre was abducted on June 29 by paramilitaries of the United Self-Defense Groups of Colombia, (AUC).
		For many years the security and armed forces and their paramilitary allies have accused trade unionists, human rights workers, members of legal opposition groups and popular activists of being guerrilla sympathizers or auxiliaries.
		The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Annual Survey for 1999 recorded that during the previous year more than 90 trade unionists had been murdered in Colombia.
	www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/20000704colompwwus.htm (327 words)

	New Zealand Council of Trade Unions: News: Subject Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Trade unionists are working to set up a new international union organisation, to tackle the challenges of the global economy.
		Trade unions are leading a campaign to save thousands of jobs in the textile, clothing and footwear industry that are under threat from tariff reduction.
		Members from a range of trade unions are to gather in New Plymouth tonight to support union members at TSB bank who have waited 12 years for the opportunity to negotiate a collective employment agreement, Council of Trade Unions secretary Carol Beaumont said today.
	www.union.org.nz /news/bysubject_index.html (9513 words)

	People's Weekly World Newspaper Online - Venezuela today: a trade unionist speaks out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		“For us trade unionists it is very important to meet with leaders and members of unions in the United States, so we can tell them the truth about what’s happening in our country,” he told me during an hour-long interview on Sept. 19.
		The third factor contributing to the low level of unionization, Eusse said, is the negative example of the dominant trade union federation, the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV).
		Further, “Venezuela is one of the very few governments in Latin America, maybe with the sole exception of Cuba, that has unambiguously stated its opposition to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA),” Eusee said, referring to the Bush administration’s economic scheme for dominating the hemisphere.
	www.pww.org /article/articleprint/4160 (1406 words)

	Malta Today: The role of today’s trade unionist
		As we move on to the subject of how trade unionism has evolved over the years, Mr Vella, who has been secretary general at the UHM for four years, jokes that even his post is "no job for life".
		Mr Vella admits that his knowledge of trade unionism was sparse when he first joined the UHM.
		I cannot end an interview with a trade unionist without bringing up the issue of the support both the UHM and GWU give to the public sector workers to protect their summer working hours, in the face of a frustrated private sector and even Joe Citizen.
	www.maltatoday.com.mt /2002/0512/people.html (1729 words)

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