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	new.unionism>> what?
		When we use the term we are referring to a global brew of two fairly well-known union strategies: organizing and partnership.
		For a deeper analysis of the roots of new unionism and its prospects email library@newunionism.net and we will send you a report for discussion by founding member Dr Conor Cradden.
		Difficult questions regarding the aspirations and goals of unionism were being raised, but for working people the answer was straightforward: they wanted a voice; they wanted influence.
	www.newunionism.net /what.htm (2414 words)

	Unionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unionism is a movement based on the ideal of syndicalism and support for the trade union movement, but which exists within the framework of an open capitalist society as an independent participatory private entity.
		For the political meaning in the UK and Ireland, see Unionist.
		Unionism is also a term used by some Christian denominations to describe ecumenicalism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unionism (102 words)

	Industrial unionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Industrial unionism is a labor union organizing method through which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union -- regardless of skill or trade -- thus giving workers in one industry, or in all industries, more leverage in bargaining and in strike situations.
		Industrial unionism contrasts with craft unionism, which organizes workers along lines of their specific trades, even if leads to multiple union locals (with different contracts) in the same workplace.
		Verity Burgmann asserts in Revolutionary industrial unionism that the IWW in Australia provided an alternate form of labour organising, to be contrasted with the Laborism of the Australian Labor Party and the Bolshevik Communism of the Communist Party of Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Industrial_unionism (431 words)

	Minority Report - By Alexis Buss, Industrial Worker, Oct. 2002 \| Solidarity Unionism - Organizing without majority ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		If unionism is to become a movement again, we need to break out of the current model, one that has come to rely on a recipe increasingly difficult to prepare: a majority of workers vote a union in, a contract is bargained.
		If unionism is to become a movement again, we need to break out of the current model and return to the sort of rank-and-file on-the-job agitating that won the 8-hour day and built unions as a vital force.
		Minority unionism is about forming meaningful, organized networks of solidarity capable of winning improvements in individual workplaces, throughout industries, and for the benefit of the international working class.
	www.iww.org /organize/strategy/AlexisBuss102002.shtml (1155 words)

	Encyclopedia: Industrial unionism
		Craft unionism, or sometimes trade unionism, is a labor union organizing method by which labor unions are divided along the lines of workers specific trades, regardless of what industry they work in.
		Craft unionism is perhaps best exemplified by many of the construction unions that formed the backbone of the old American Federation of Labor (which later merged with the industrial unions of the Congress of Industrial Organizations to form the AFL-CIO).
		Craft unionism has not, however, disappeared: it is still the norm in the airline industry, survives despite much upheaval in the construction industry, and even appears, in very muted form, in some mass production industries, such as automobile manufacturing, where skilled trades employees have pressed their own agendas within the union.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Industrial-unionism (1022 words)

	Hoxie, Trade Unionism in the United States: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Though unionism itself is so pragmatic and therefore so protean as to warrant the rejection of all attempts to characterize and judge it as a whole, it has seemingly developed along certain fairly distinct general lines giving rise thus to types sufficiently definite to allow of legitimate generalization in regard to them.
		This variety of unionism is one in which the constituent craft or amalgamated craft unions retain their individual sovereignty, yet appear and act as a single organization with respect to designated affairs of common interest.
		Uplift unionism varies greatly in degree of inclusiveness and in form of government, but the tendency seems to be toward the greatest practicable degree of mutuality and democracy.
	www.econlib.org /library/Essays/JPE/hxTUUS1.html (4096 words)

	CAIN: 'Interpreting Unionism' by Norman Porter
		The challenge to unionism in this instance is to halt a gradual decline of its relevance.
		Unionism's difficulties are compounded by challenges engendered by a third sense of the concept of parity of esteem which is appropriately dubbed 'political'.
		Unionism's most urgent tasks, on this reading, must be to heal its own divisions and shore up its collective resources in order to defend itself against blatant and subtle attempts to undermine the justness of its cause.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/politics/docs/porter1.htm (11784 words)

	Trade Unionism
		Trade unionism is an action of the workers, which does not go beyond the limit of capitalism.
		Trade unionism was the first training school in proletarian virtue, in solidarity as the spirit of organised fighting.
		Industrial unionism alone as a method of fighting the capitalist class is not sufficient to overthrow capitalist society and to conquer the world for the working class.
	www.geocities.com /~johngray/panunion.htm (4728 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: UNIONISM
		Unionism grew from habit and from the almost religious zeal with which some viewed their country.
		Rejoining the Union in 1865 was for the majority a relatively painless process because Unionism never totally died.
		Smyrl, "Unionism in Texas, 1856-1861," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 68 (October 1964).
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/UU/mzu1.html (1093 words)

	CAIN: Issues: Politics - 'Interpreting Unionism' by Norman Porter
		The present circumstances of unionism are constituted in large measure by three sorts of challenges unionists cannot hope to avoid indefinitely: those internal to unionism, those originating beyond the borders of Northern Ireland, and those located within its borders.
		It excludes strands of unionism that are not seen as sufficiently uncompromising, and it remains tactically negative and short on substance.
		But the cause of unionism, as exemplified in recent calls for unity, is often defined so broadly as to cover up divisions in the unionist family and minimise their seriousness.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/politics/docs/porter.htm (6210 words)

	For the revival and assembling of trade unionism
		In front of a divided trade unionism or at least not collected, the employer, with the complicity of certain governments, tends to impose its law.
		Is not it the responsibility of the trade unionism to contribute to the reduction of social and territorial inequalities, to solidarity and social cohesion?
		Generally speaking, trade unionism is asked to be much in touch with wage-earners, their rank and file organizations, to have an approach always more democratic.
	www.eefi.org /0303/030315.htm (1336 words)

	Practical Anarchy Online - Business Unionism vs. Revolutionary Unionism by Dave Neal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Make no mistake: unionism was a powerful, effective social force, and it has always been reviled by capitalists and management, because it cuts into their absolute workplace authority, which they seem to feel is theirs by right, in the style of kings of times past.
		Business unionism won out in the past struggles between Labor and Capital, but in the long run, their vision of worker/owner solidarity is a false one, which is unravelling as we speak, particularly in the wake of NAFTA, GATT, and now MAI.
		Revolutionary unions practice industrial unionism; that is, the idea that instead of workers dividing themselves into manifold trades, and defending their interests to the exclusion of others, there are, instead, only two classifications in working society -- workers and capitalists.
	www.infoshop.org /PA/texts/dave_unions.html (2029 words)

	Trade Unionism and The Class War - Guy Aldred
		Trade Unionism has conquered social power and commanded influence in so far as it satisfied and arose from the social necessities of the capitalist epoch.
		Trade Unionism, therefore, is intelligible only on the ground that reform is possible and revolution unnecessary.
		Again, even were it to be shown that Trade Unionism did not increase the nominal rate of wages, it has to be admitted (says the Unionist) that it is able to do much by raising the actual rate of wages.
	www.geocities.com /cordobakaf/aldred_class_war.html (4339 words)

	Immigration and American Unionism
		The incompatibility of slave with free labor is advanced to explain the lag of unionism in the South.
		If the book's history of unionism seems rushed and incomplete, it is because the aim of this history is not to understand unionism, but to know that unionism in all its manifestations was always against immigrants who took jobs from native workers, and to note that immigration waxed when unionism waned and vice-versa.
		The recent move of traditional unionism to embrace immigrants is understandable, but is doomed to fail.
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0421.shtml (1240 words)

	The Leprosy of Unionism
		Unionism is a diseased condition of the church.
		Unionism is a disease which is 100% fatal.
		The Lutheran Church in the United States has not been immune to unionism in the past, and it is not immune today.
	www.clclutheran.org /shared/thoughtdocs/leprosy.htm (1672 words)

	Corporate Unionism (1)
		If union members want to maintain their rights for the dues they pay into their labor organization, they will have to be aware of the symptoms of corporate unionism and learn how to fight it.
		If they become remote and inaccessible to their union members and develop life-styles and attitudes that are closer to that of the employers, that’s corporate unionism.
		And if their prime objective is to get elected and re-elected until they are ready to retire, without developing new leaders that are capable of fighting for the needs of the members, that’s corporate unionism.
	www.laboreducator.org /corpunion1.htm (1094 words)

	ACTU: News: Forms Of Solidarity: Trade Unions And Community Unionism - 09 May 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In other words, we use community unionism to describe a whole range of alliances between union and community, and who the community is we want to link with, may also take many forms.
		With this definition: community unionism describes the whole series of ways that unions work with communities and community organisations over issues of interest to either or both-- we can identify a number of forms of community unionism.
		While examples of each of the three forms of community unionism are numerous, for the purposes of this paper I will be concentrating on the second and third forms: community-union links over specific issues of common importance; and the pre-union formation as a transformative link.
	www.actu.asn.au /ecc/news/1053579943_13456.html (2956 words)

	Jesus First - Unionism and Syncretism
		Both unionism (“We agree to disagree”) and syncretism (“We’re all saying the same thing”) are religious statements.
		As such, unionism and syncretism are the enemies of the Gospel.
		The proclamation of the Gospel is the antidote to unionism and syncretism.
	www.jesusfirst.net /2002dec07.htm (1006 words)

	AAUP: AAUP Unionism: Principles & Goals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Four main factors distinguish AAUP unionism: a commitment to academic freedom and shared governance, local autonomy, an emphasis on organizing, and dedication to organizational democracy.
		This emphasis on member-based unionism also means that a major part of local AAUP union activity is educational.
		Scholars, researchers, and other academic professionals hold the power on their campuses, although that fact is often masked by their own inexperience in exercising it.
	www.aaup.org /AAUP/protectrights/bargaining/aaup-unionism.htm (3012 words)

	Basu repents labour blunder - Militant unionism was a 'mistake' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In what must rank alongside his confession that passing up prime ministership in 1996 was a "historic blunder", Basu said the mistake was committed when the CPM was under Promode Dasgupta and continued during his tenure in office as chief minister.
		At a meeting organised by Citu, the CPM's labour arm, Basu admitted that neither Dasgupta nor he could foresee that gheraos, sit-ins and other forms of militancy would spin out of control and mess up industrial relations, shattering Bengal's economy and casting a shadow on its future with investors shunning the state.
		Both are driven by the realisation of the damage stray acts of labour militancy had caused to Bengal's image outside.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0103/94.html (452 words)

	Business Unionism Still Rules
		I say the "living dead" because although with the death of Lane Kirkland in August all three are dead, the weight of their reign lives on in countless visible and invisible ways.
		All three are, of course, intimately related in the history of the working class in the U.S. In fact, the embrace of American capitalism requires at least the tolerance of all three.
		In a fanatically anti-Communist inversion of Lenin's theory of imperialism, their view of the world brought with it the illusion of influence and the increasing distance from the practice of unionism on the ground.
	www.wpunj.edu /~newpol/issue28/moody28.htm (730 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Battle for the heart of unionism intensifies
		Again, it was after a close count, where the anti-Agreement wing of unionism felt cheated.
		If the old strategy of "not an inch" unionism is to survive, it is only as strong as its perceived "weakest link".
		And so the battle within unionism is destined to continue, even descend into greater turmoil.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_1641000/1641907.stm (929 words)

	Encyclopedia: Trade union
		A union (labor union in American English; trade union in Commonwealth English) is an organisation formed by workers.
		Most typically, a single union will represent workers in a particular industry (industrial unionism) or craft (craft unionism), within all or part of a country, and will be organised to improve and defend wages, benefits, and working conditions.
		by Leon CunninghamCraft unionism refers to an approach to union organizing in the United States and elsewhere that seeks to unify workers in a particular industry along the lines of the particular craft or trade that they work in.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Trade-union (1392 words)

	United Irelander: Two sides of unionism
		I think this is a good example of the two faces of unionism.
		Unionism which wants economic, political and social stability.
		And as for Paisley, I find it quite odd that a man who claims to be a man of faith, can have so much...well, doubt.
	unitedirelander.blogspot.com /2005/09/two-sides-of-unionism.html (345 words)

	enterprise unionism -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The history of unionism on the European continent differs significantly in several respects from that in Britain and the United States.
		Until it was halted in 1949–50 by sharp deflation, revision of labour laws, and a purge of leftists, unionism enlisted 6 million members—almost half of all workers.
		She was active in the women's suffrage movement, and she wrote several books on issues affecting women and children, including ‘Sweated Labor and the Minimum...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9032716?tocId=9032716 (823 words)

	Eire-Ireland:Journal of Irish Studies: The limits of "New Unionism": David Trimble and the Ulster Unionist ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the case of unionism, much of the academic discussion that has occurred has tried to identify those components of unionist ideology that would be most conducive to the forging of some sort of political accommodation with nationalists and republicans.
		Various sources of "new" or "civic" unionism have been identified, but these have tended to be defined as intellectual currents or if they have a party political basis to be sought among the fringe political formations of unionism.
		One recent analysis of unionism and the peace process, for example, focuses almost entirely on the role of the small loyalist parties linked to paramilitaries and Dr. Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FKX/is_1-2_39/ai_n6150066 (1321 words)

	GSD: PW's New Language Needed
		Social-movement unionism implies an active strategic orientation that uses the strongest of society’s oppressed and exploited, generally organised workers, to mobilise those who are less able to sustain self-mobilisation: the poor, the unemployed, the casualised workers, the neighbourhood organisations.
		The latter points beyond `economic’, `political’ or `political-economic’ unionism and reminds unions of the necessity to address themselves to civil society and the new social movements as well as capital and state.
		These cases and contributions suggest to me that a new international social-movement unionism is, and has to be, a matter of a dialogue between all left, democratic and internationalist tendencies, rather than being pronounced or claimed - even implicitly - by one.
	www.antenna.nl /~waterman/needed2.html (4640 words)

	Voluntary Student Unionism Transition Fund for Sporting and Recreational Facilities
		Voluntary Student Unionism Transition Fund for Sporting and Recreational Facilities
		In December 2005, the Australian Government announced the establishment of a transition fund to assist higher education providers with the construction and maintenance of infrastructure for sporting and recreational facilities to support implementation of voluntary student unionism (VSU).
		The VSU Transition Fund is one of three initiatives announced as a result of the Higher Education Support Amendment (Abolition of Compulsory Up-front Student Union Fees) Act 2005.
	www.dest.gov.au /sectors/higher_education/programmes_funding/VSUF.htm (406 words)

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