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| | MSN Encarta - American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations |
 | | The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada, established in 1881 to encourage labor legislation, and several unaffiliated trade unions merged to form the AFL. | | | American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations | | | During the Korean War (1950-1953), the AFL and the CIO formed a United Labor Policy Committee to deal with government labor policies. |
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| | MD Labor History 1865-1930 |
| | In 1860, the federal census reported a total of 3,000 manufacturing establishments in the state with a labor force of 29,000; in 1890, the number of establishments was 7,485 and the average number of workers 98,000 (Fox 402). | | | An important outcome of the period was the creation of the Department of Labor. | | | In 1872, the National Labor Union transformed itself into the National Labor Reform Party. |
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| | Selected Bibliographies:William Green--Wirtz Labor Library |
| | Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor. | | | Green discusses the balance that is necessary between labor and industry. | | | “Labor’s part in the alleviation of unemployment.” In the Unemployment Industry Seeks a Solution compiled by the President’s Emergency Committee for Employment. |
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| | Today in History: August 20 |
| | 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. | | | A coalition of skilled and unskilled workers, farmers, and reformers, the National Labor Union was created to pressure Congress to enact labor reforms. | | | 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. |
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| | American Federation of Labor v. Eu (1984) 36 C3d 687 |
| | Because the governing federal law so clearly eviscerates the heart of the proposed initiative, I also agree that it is appropriate to remove the matter from the ballot at this time, before additional effort and expense are incurred on an inevitably futile task. | | | Finally, section 3, the remaining substantive provision of the initiative, adopts a resolution calling upon Congress to propose a balanced budget amendment, and directs the Secretary of State to apply for a constitutional convention. | | | In recent years a number of persons, including the current President, have urged the enactment of a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget. |
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| | Philippine-American Chronicle |
| | National labor news was mainly composed of American Federation of Labor news. | | | In terms of national labor news, the paper printed articles about the National Recovery Act hearings, changes in labor laws such as the classification of professional employees’ wages, the varying pay rates found in women-employing industries, and the congressional status of the proposed 30 hour work week among other things. | | | The paper was not only a way to inform Filipinos about the state of various labor movements, but also a way to provide Filipinos with a sense of community. |
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| | AFT - Higher Education Department |
| | AFT Higher Education has released its second issue of American Academic—appropriately named “Accountability: To Whom and For What?” This issue takes up the questions of what constitutes “success” in higher education and what accountability measures should be used. | | | AFT is working with several other organizations to oppose the U.S. House of Representatives' budget reconciliation bill, which will cut billions of dollars of federal student aid. | | | Read about recent developments regarding reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and other federal legislation related to higher education. |
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| | Merger of the AFL and the CIO (from American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations) -- ... |
| | Focuses on the development and accomplishments of labor unions such as the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations(CIO). | | | Includes material on current federation activities; updates on legislation affecting workplace conditions, ergonomics, and overtime pay; and endorsements for upcoming elections. | | | U.S.-based organization conducting research and educational programs in the field of employment and labor affairs. |
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| | AFL-CIO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations | | | The NUP's program for reform of the federation included reduction of the central bureaucracy, more money spent on organizing new members rather than on electoral politics, and a restructuring of unions and locals, eliminating some smaller locals and focusing more along the lines of industrial unionism. | | | Since 2005, when several large unions split with the federation, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), with over a million members, is the largest union in the AFL-CIO. |
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| | The Union Movement’s Proud Past |
| | American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations | | | Build your future at the National Labor College. | | | The history of work in this country helps us understand our social and economic status today and prepares us to navigate the economy and politics of the future. |
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| | Reader's Companion to American History - -AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR |
| | The afl—cio was now the nation's dominant labor organization, but this achievement was already being undermined by changes in the American economy and work force—most notably, the growing loss of jobs in the manufacturing sector where unions had been strongest. | | | After the war, however, business resumed its union-busting activities, and the afl lost ground throughout the 1920s. | | | The American Federation of Labor (afl) was organized as an association of trade unions in 1886, growing out of an earlier Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions founded in 1881. |
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| | U.S. DOL - The History of Labor Day |
| | What is clear is that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic. | | | The first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. | | | The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. |
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| | American Federation of Labor Records |
| | Correspondence with other unions, with the AFL national office, and with company officials clarifies the positions of both labor and management during a crucial period for organized labor. | | | Damaging private sector tactics such as open shops and antiunion programs were also matters of concern. | | | This installment of UPA’s American Federation of Labor Records documents a period that was arguably the most eventful and fascinating in the history of U.S. labor. |
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| | American Federation of Labor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The AFL was not able to block the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which restored the balance between labor and management. | | | The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations of labor unions in the United States. | | | The impetus for the major federal labor laws of the 1930s came from the New Deal, which wanted to build up a counterweight to business. |
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| | Outline of the American Economy: - 9 |
| | However, growth slowed during the 1920s when labor met determined opposition from business groups like the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). | | | Additionally, because the 1920s tended to be prosperous years with high employment, workers felt relatively secure without union support. | | | In 1881, a Dutch immigrant cigarmaker named Samuel Gompers and some other leading craftsmen organized the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada -- the predecessor of the American Federation of Labor. |
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| | FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S LETTER TO THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR CONVENTION |
| | The government has set up machinery to adjust industrial disputes in the full confidence that it is adequate to solve problems which may arise on defense jobs in all fairness and justice to the parties concerned. | | | The time has come when the services of such agencies must be used before any recourse is taken to a strike or lockout, and I call now upon labor and management to cooperate at all times to that end. | | | I am certain that the members of the American Federation of Labor will do their full part in carrying through the program to which we as a nation are committed and that all other responsible groups will do likewise. |
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| | Online NewsHour: Origins of Labor Day -- September 2, 1996 PBS |
| | Read about the turbulent circumstances of Labor Day's birth, browse NewsHour segments on labor and the economy, and explore labor-related resources on the Internet. | | | How the Internet is changing the face of business. | | | Charlayne Hunter-Gault reports on the uproar over child labor. |
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| | :: LA UNION : AFL-CIO :: |
| | The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO’s delegate body issued their endorsements for the April non-partisan municipal and June 2006 primary elections. | | | Working families suffered a 2.3 percent drop in real income between 2001 and 2004 according the Federal Reserve. | | | The AFL-CIO plans to spend a record $40 million in an attempt to unseat Republicans in this year's congressional elections, the labor federation's president said Monday. |
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| | American Federation Of Labor |
| | JoltSearch is an excellent resource for quality sites on American Federation Of Labor and much more! | | | Bid on auctions or use Buy it Now to purchase items from customer-rated sellers. |
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| | American Labor History |
| | A slightly dated but still valuable guide to Legislative Research with Thomas has been prepared by Larry Schankmann at Mansfield University. | | | The most comprehensive index to American (U.S. and Canada) history. | | | Browse or search legislation from the 93d (1973) Congress to the present. |
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| | October 31, 2003, Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Richard ... |
| | In each of these cases, the Bush Administration had the opportunity to effectively enforce U.S. trade laws, but chose not to do so, choosing to side with the importers and the Chinese government, at the expense of American workers and producers. | | | Workers in China, the United States, and around the world pay the price for this inaction, while companies producing in China enjoy the profits. | | | October 31, 2003, Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Richard M. Trumka, |
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| | The reports prior to 1886 are from the annual proceedings of the Federation of Organized Trade and Labor Unions of the US and Canada, which Gompers reorganized in 1886 to form the AFL. | | | Unlike the AFL, the CIO also allowed the unionization of semi and unskilled labor. | | | Desc: The American Federation of Labor was founded by Samuel Gompers in 1886 as a national organization of trade unions. |
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| | "Forward-March!" a photographic memorial of World War I |
| | Great credit should be given to the American Federation of Labor for combating and exposing the aims of the communists to undermine our republican form of government and destroy our industries. | | | Federation of Labor, with the object of turning it into a mass revolutionary instrument for the overthrow of the Government of the United States and the building of a soviet régime in its stead. | | | During this period the American labor movement has constituted the front line trenches between Americanism and communism, and the loyal American labor leaders, and rank and file of the American Federation of Labor, have borne the brunt of the attack and have been America's first line of defense. |
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| | Digital History |
| | It was in the building trades where the craft principle was most dominant that the American Federation of Labor developed its largest membership. | | | Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor | | | Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was the first president of the American Federation of Labor, the first enduring national labor union. |
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| | ORGANIZED LABOR IN MINNESOTA |
| | The Fair Labor Standards Act was amended to raise the minimum wage to 75 cents an hour. | | | 1973: Minnesota legislature passed a host of much-needed labor legislation, including a state minimum wage law, an occupational safety and health act and a public employees labor relations act. | | | The new organization is called the Minnesota AFL-CIO Federation of Labor. |
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| | H102 Lecture 07: Labor and the Workers' Search for Power |
| | Instead, they could hire unskilled laborers who performed simple tasks and worked for lower wages. | | | For the most part, middle- and upper-class leaders, not laborers themselves, dominated these organizations and believed that workers had the power to reform society. | | | First significant national labor organization with local chapters in cities throughout the United States. |
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| | About AFM - History |
| | 1955 - The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to create the AFL-CIO. | | | 1896 - The American Federation of Musicians was established and chartered by the American Federation of Labor. | | | A majority of the delegates voted to form the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), representing 3,000 musicians nationally. |
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| | Great American History Fact-Finder - -American Federation of Labor (AFL) |
| | (1886), a federation of skilled craft and trade unions formed to improve wages and working conditions, shorten working hours, abolish child labor, and provide for collective bargaining. | | | The AFL was founded by Samuel Gompers as the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions (1881), but it was reorganized in 1886, with Gompers serving as president from 1886 to 1924 (except 1895). | | | The AFL and CIO operated separately until 1955, when they merged to form the AFL-CIO. |
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| | Labor History: Response: Reassessing Gompers and the AFL |
| | FindArticles > Reference and Education > Labor History > May, 1999 > Article | | | Even the AFL leaders acknowledged that the indifference of rank-and-file members towards judicial hostility emerged as a major weakness in their political strategies, sabotaging their efforts to deliver the labor vote to Democratic candidates. | | | The law, Forbath declares, "helped recast many of labor's aspirations for reform and redistribution as not fit to be addressed to the state and polity; in so doing it pushed to the margins a competing language of labor protest that treated the law and the state as vehicles of social transformation" (171). |
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| | American Federation of Labor — www.greenwood.com |
| | They provide condensed accounts of the reports, debates, resolutions, and policy statements made at the annual conventions, and each contains a general subject index. | | | This book is not currently available for purchase Online. | | | Description: Between 1919 and 1960, the AFL issued the three volumes of its official History Encyclopedia, Reference Book, organized in A-Z format. |
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| | The End of the 19th Century |
| | Match the items on the right with the items on the left. | | | First president of the American Federation of Labor who believed that organized workers had the right to strike | | | Formed in 1869 but died out after violence arising from labor strikes although the union did not support strikes |
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| | Federation of Labor - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912 |
| | Federation of Labor.—The American Federation of Labor was organized in 1881. | | | On Dec. 8, 1886, the name was changed to the "American Federation of Labor." The organization consists of four departments; 120 national and international unions, representing about 27,000 local unions; 39 state federations, and over 600 city central unions, the total membership in 1910 being about 2,000,000. | | | Nothing was accomplished at that convention, but at another, held in Pittsburgh, Pa., in November following, the "Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions" in the United States and Canada was affected. |
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| | American Federation of Labor |
| | The demand of the workers is to be larger sharers in the product of their labor. | | | In our own country it takes on the form of the trade-union movement, as exemplified by the American Federation of Labor - a movement and a federation founded as a replica of the American governments, both the Federal Government and the State and city governments. | | | In 1955 the CIO merged with the American Federation of Labour. |
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| | American Federation of Labor |
| | The American Federation of Labor was a national labor union established by Samuel Gompers in 1886. | | | It differed from previous labor unions in that it's membership was limited to skilled workers. | | | Gompers, the leader of the AF of L until 1924, chose to organize skilled workers only because they were the workers with the most leverage against employers. |
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| | About USA : American Holidays > Labor Day |
| | The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) | | | This holiday, which always is observed on the first Monday of September has been a federal holiday since 1894, but was observed in some places before that day as a result of a campaign by an early organization of workers called the Knights of Labor. | | | The History of Labor Day (U.S. Dept. of Labor) |
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| | American Federation of ... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | http://gogog.com/project/wikipedia/index.php/Special:Search/American_Federation_of_..." title="Special:Search/American Federation of...">Search for American Federation of... |
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| | FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code |
| | Communication by such employees of the facts of a dispute, deemed by them to be relevant to their interests, can no more be barred because of concern for the economic interests against which they are seeking to enlist public opinion than could the utterance protected in Thornhill's case. | | | 'Members of a union might, without special statutory authorization by a state, make known the facts of a labor dispute, for freedom of speech is guaranteed by the Federal Constitution.' Senn v. | | | FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code |
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| | American Federation of Labor |
| | A merger reunited them in 1955, bringing most unions into the national federation. | | | The CIO, representing unskilled workers, broke away from the AFL in the mid-1930s. | | | The AFL was founded 1886 by Samuel Gompers and was initially a union of skilled craftworkers. |
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| | The Samuel Gompers Papers: The American Federation of Labor at the Height of Progressivism:0252027558:Albert, Peter J.; ... |
| | In this ninth volume of documentary history of the nation's premier labor leader, we learn of Gompers' successful efforts to secure passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act and the La Follette Seamen's Act, which underscored his effectiveness as a labor lobbyist. | | | The Samuel Gompers Papers: The American Federation of Labor Under Siege, 1906-9 | | | Between 1913 and 1917, the American Federation of Labor launched a wide-ranging campaign to organize women workers, expanded the Labor Forward Movement to organize the unorganized, tested new methods of reaching unskilled workers, and welcomed new unions into the fold. |
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| | American Federation of Labor |
| | Founded in 1886, the AFL sought to organize craft unions in a federation in which the individual unions maintained some autonomy. | | | The structure of the AFL differed from that of the |
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| | Coolidge Papers. American Federation of Labor, 1923-29. |
| | Letters between Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and President Coolidge and others, touching on government's role in the working conditions of American labor. | | | Circular from Samuel Gompers to To All Organized Labor | | | Selections reproduced as facsimile images: 35 of 160 pages. |
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| | American Labor Unions - Helen Marot |
| | American Labor Unions (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1914; BoondocksNet Edition, 2001). | | | American Labor Unions - Garment Workers on Strike in New York City | | | Poetry and History of the American Labor Movement |
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| | Find in a Library: The American federation of labor |
| | Find in a Library: The American federation of labor | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. | | | To find this item in a library, enter a postal code, state, province, or country in the field above. |
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