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| | Labor Notes - Three Steps To Reorganizing And Rebuilding The Labor Movement |
 | | Labor’s goal must be to organize millions of private sector workers and continue to grow in the public sector. | | | Labor needs to evolve from 66 amalgamated international unions with multiple overlapping jurisdictions into a small number of large sectoral unions with the resources, focus, capacity and self-interest to grow and win for workers in their sectors. | | | Density, the percentage of the total workforce, sector of the economy, industry or labor market that is unionized, is critical to labor’s ability not just to bargain effectively but also to organize on scale in the private sector. |
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http://www.labornotes.org/archives/2002/12/e.html
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| | THE LABOR MOVEMENT |
| | Actually, most of the labor laws that protect workers were instituted because unions pressured the government to enact them. | | | In addition, most companies are willing to break federal law by commiting unfair labor pratices because the fines they pay as punishment are cheaper than the costs of having a unionized workforce that demands better wages and benefits. | | | Court decisions about labor law have also tipped the balance in favor of the bosses, giving them more power to thwart unionization drives and penalizing them little when they break labor laws. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/tx/broadspectrum/index.socialism3.html
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| | Labor Movement |
| | Students for Informed Career Decisions - Provides information sheets on the environmental and labor practices of corporations that recruit on college campuses - including Disney, which is embroiled in a labor controversy. | | | UnionWare - Company offering software support to the labor movement. |
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http://www.supercrawler.com/Society/Work/Labor_Movement
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| | Labor Movement |
| | Before 1840s the workers' income was based on price, the remuneration they received for the sale of end product of the labor. | | | Even though the private sector union participation rate has declined over the recent past public opinion surveys demonstrate that most American workers continue to believe that employment interest can be advanced through unionization. | | | But with the growth of urban concentration master workmen set up small retail shops and employed journeymen and apprentices against wage payment. |
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http://www.theholidayspot.com/laborday/labmovement.htm
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| | Open Directory - Society: Work: Labor Movement: News |
| | Labor Educator - Publishes news, pro-union pamphlets and advocates democratic reform within the union movement. | | | Labor Party Press - News, commentary and information resources from Labor Party, a coalition of labor organizations and other organization advocating for workers rights and progressive values. | | | Sweat Labor Magazine - Independent labor news and opinion from the USA, Canada and Mexico |
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http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Work/Labor_Movement/News
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| | LaborNet: Online Communications for a Democratic Labor Movement |
| | The aim of the Labor Solidarity Committee and the Labor Activist is to provide interesting and relevant information to organizers, rank-and-file activists, students, and educators. | | | FAIR focuses public awareness on the narrow corporate ownership of the press, the media's allegiance to official agendas and their insensitivity to labor, women, minorities, and other public interest constituencies. | | | The Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that educates the public about the impact of voting systems on political representation, proportional representation, voter turnout, and the influence of money in elections. |
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http://www.labornet.org/links.htm
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| | Labor Movement |
| | Most of the significant legislation affecting labor unions now was passed during the New Deal. | | | The aim of this 'online library' is to provide access to a wide range of materials and to promote informed discussion of important policy issues including human rights, development, labour and environmental organizations. | | | 5) Recent Trends in Labor and Employment http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Eco_recent_labor_trends.htm |
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http://www.42explore2.com/labor.htm
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| | AlterNet: WireTap: Betting on the Future: Youth and the Labor Movement |
| | Several unions in the education industry take an active role in campaigns for fully funded public schools and higher education, but many sectors of the labor movements are absent from these fights. | | | The labor movement needs students not just to become future staffers, but allies in public discourse. | | | The concerns of workers are frequently absent from public policy debates, with many politicians eager to embrace corporate centrism. |
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http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21505
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| | Lighting Labor's Fire |
| | What we need is a new approach to rebuilding the unions--and to labor law reform. | | | To bring labor back, some change of law has to occur. | | | Yet we have no chance--for now--of reforming the labor laws that make organizing so difficult. |
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20021223/ehrenreich
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| | Labor Party |
| | Read Mark Dudzic's statement on the future of the labor movement. | | | In "Saving the Right to Organize: Substituting the Thirteenth Amendment for the Wagner Act" Mark Dudzic assesses labor's recent strategies to overcome restrictions on labor's ability to organize and to bargain effectively. | | | Click here for a pdf of the article as well as responses by Larry Cohen and Joshua B. Freeman. |
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http://www.thelaborparty.org
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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. | | | From them developed the movement to secure state legislation. |
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http://www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm
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| | Labor Quotes Labor Quotations Labor Sayings Wisdom Quotes |
| | Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America. | | | One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the | | | Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. |
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http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_labor.html
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| | American Labor Merit Badge |
| | Discuss why it is important to maintain good relationships among business, labor, and government. | | | Check with some news sources where you live -- public library, federal, state, county, or municipal employment office; labor union office -- for information about working people and their concerns. | | | Draw a diagram of the organizational structure of the association you visited from the local to the national level, if applicable. |
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http://www.meritbadge.com/mb/121.htm
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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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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/september96/labor_day_9-2.html
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| | Labour movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Robert N. Stern, Daniel B. Cornfield, The U.S. labor movement:References and Resources, G.K. Hall and Co 1996 | | | The Australian labour movement is an example of a labour movement that has grown and existed in a particular national context. | | | The labour movement (or labor movement) is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_movement
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| | ALSC - American Labor Studies Center |
| | Free Labor Education (K-12) Resource Guide for Teachers | | | The Resource Guide is Twenty-eight Pages of Identified Curriculum Materials: Lesson Plans, Videotapes, Software, Archives, Internet Resources and More | | | California Federation of Teachers, Labor in the Schools Committee |
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http://www.labor-studies.org
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| | American Labor History |
| | REFERENCESOURCESIN U.S. Course related materials include the Internet Resources for Labor History, Hawaii's | | | Labour's Online Bookstore, and other resources which provide online ordering for titles on such interesting subjects as | | | See also the discussion of A Concerned Clergy and the Labor Movement. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/6460/AmLabHist
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| | LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net. |
| | Australia Labor Party confident of union support for Pacific work plan [Radio Australia] 13-Oct-2005 | | | South Africa Government statisticians heed IMF criticism in rejig of Labour Force Survey [Business Day] 13-Oct-2005 | | | Venezuela Venezuelan Land and Factory Expropriations as seen from the Labor Ministry and the Union Federation [Venezuelanalysis.com] 14-Oct-2005 |
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http://www.labourstart.org
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| | Labor Relations Research Center - UMass Amherst |
| | The Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts is one of the premier Labor Studies programs in the country. | | | The Masters of Science in Labor Studies, with concentrations in globalization, labor and communities, and strategic corporate research, equips graduates to work in the labor movement and other organizations advocating for workers' rights. | | | Ongoing non-credit education designed to build a stronger labor movement. |
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http://www.umass.edu/lrrc
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| | May Day - the Real Labor Day |
| | The police and militia were increased in size and received new and powerful weapons financed by local business leaders. | | | In 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions passed a resolution stating that eight hours would constitute a legal day's work from and after May 1, 1886. | | | Businesses and the state were terrified by the increasingly revolutionary character of the movement and prepared accordingly. |
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http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/mayday.html
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| | TIMELI |
| | - The Walsh-Healey Act sets safety standards, minimum wage, overtime pay and child labor provisions on all federal contracts. | | | - The Foran Act bans immigration of laborers brought in under contract to break strikes. | | | - The American Federation of Labor forms with Samuel Gompers as its first president. |
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http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haymarket/TIMELI.HTM
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| | labor movement |
| | Their activities proved more harmful than helpful to the labor movement. | | | the complex of organizations and individuals supporting and advocating improved conditions for labor. | | | the effort of organized labor and its supporters to bring about improved conditions for the worker, as through collective bargaining: |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0508704.html
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| | Strengthening Our Union Movement For The Future |
| | American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations | | | Posted throughout this site are dozens of proposals submitted by national unions, state federations, central labor councils and allies and more than 9,000 comments and opinions by grassroots members and workers. | | | Recognizing there is much left to do, the AFL-CIO launched a broad discussion in which union leaders, grassroots activists and allies examined how we should strengthen the union movement for the future while giving working families the power to balance corporate power. |
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http://www.aflcio.org/aboutaflcio/ourfuture
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| | AFSCME LaborLinks: Women's Labor History |
| | She pushed for the implementation of many of the labor laws and programs we enjoy today such as Social Security and the Fair Labor Standards Act. | | | Helen Marot — executive secretary of the WTUL New York branch; leader in the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountants Union and the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; author of the Handbook of Labor Literature and American Labor Unions. | | | Sarah G. Bagley — organized and became president of the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association in 1844. |
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http://www.afscme.org/otherlnk/whlinks.htm
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| | U.S. Department of Labor -- Research Library |
| | Department of Labor Government Information Locator Service (GILS) / Major Information Systems | | | Large segments of its collection — which document the history of labor, labor unions, and the growth and development of the labor movement in a national and world context — are unique either in their nature and content or in the length and completeness of their coverage. | | | Established in 1917, the Department of Labor Library is one of the oldest Cabinet-level libraries. |
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http://www.dol.gov/dol/library.htm
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| | Labor Arts: Links |
| | The story of the Jewish Labor Committee and labor's anti-Nazi activities during World War II. | | | The "labor question" was a major concern of Americans in 1912. | | | Guide to labor-oriented internet resources, including U.S. and International labor unions, labor libraries, and goverment sites. |
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http://www.laborarts.org/links
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| | NPR : U.S. Labor Movement Faces Split |
| | Talk of the Nation, July 25, 2005 · We cover this afternoon's expected announcement from the Teamsters and Service Employees International Unions that they will leave the AFL-CIO, the largest labor rift since the 1930s. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4770093&sourceCode=RSS
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| | Trenches - Labor Movement |
| | The book involves one of its main characters in the early Labor Movement, and there are brutal images of strikebreakers and labor riots. | | | The American Labor Movement didn't spring full-blown from the thigh of Zeus, and it certainly wasn't given freely to workers by management. | | | These are some of those whose courage and tenacity won for workers the right to bargain collectively as a way of improving their station in life and their working conditions. |
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http://matewan.squarespace.com/labor-movement
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| | Labor Against War on Iraq |
| | Latino Farm Labor Leaders Slam Bush Administration Pressures on Mexico to Secure Pro-War Vote at UN Security Council | | | Labor Party Interim National Council Statement Against War in Iraq | | | The Case of U.S. Labor Against the War |
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http://laborstandard.igc.org/Iraq
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| | Carol Simpson DesignWorks |
| | We do labor cartoons because humor is a powerful organizing tool. | | | Our mission is to put art to work for labor unions and non-profit organizations. | | | You may also submit suggestions for action alerts we may have overlooked. |
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http://www.cartoonwork.com
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| | Labor Arts Sampler Exhibit |
| | The Labor Arts site is designed to foster discussion and the sharing of information. | | | Collecting and displaying these cultural objects is the mission of the LABOR ARTS website, and here in the LABOR ARTS SAMPLER are examples of the kinds of items that have inspired this project. | | | So, too, are the artistic expressions of the labor movement that have moved working people to action. |
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http://www.laborarts.org/exhibits/sampler
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| | Labor day |
| | But make sure to take a virtual trip to see what Labor Day is meant for, or how the day came to be celebrated through ages, or what relevance it bears these days. | | | Labor Day information and history by John Shepler | | | The Best of Labor Day sites by Linda from About.com |
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http://www.theholidayspot.com/laborday
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| | Labor Day |
| | An Eclectic List of Events in U.S. Labor History |
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http://holidays.bfn.org/labor
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