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Introduction
- In trade unions, workers campaign for higher wages, better working conditions and fair treatment from their employers, and through the implementation of labour laws, from their governments. They do this through collective bargaining, sectoral bargaining, and when needed, strike action. In some countries, co-determination gives representatives of workers seats on the board of directors of their employers.
- Political parties representing the interests of workers campaign for labour rights, social security and the welfare state. They are usually called a labour party (in English-speaking countries), a social democratic party (in Germanic countries), a socialist party (in Romance countries), or sometimes a workers' party.
- Though historically less prominent, the cooperative movement campaigns to replace capitalist ownership of the economy with worker cooperatives, consumer cooperatives, and other types of cooperative ownership. This is related to the concept of economic democracy.
The labour movement developed as a response to capitalism and the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, at about the same time as socialism. The early goals of the movement were the right to unionise, the right to vote, democracy and the 40-hour week. As these were achieved in many of the advanced economies of western Europe and north America in the early decades of the 20th century, the labour movement expanded to issues of welfare and social insurance, wealth distribution and income distribution, public services like health care and education, social housing and common ownership. (Full article...)
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The Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) is the largest police union representing police officers of the New York City Police Department. It represents about 24,000 of the department's 36,000 officers.
The PBA was originally called the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. On January 14, 2019, it changed its name to the gender-neutral Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York. (Full article...)April in Labor History
Significant dates in labour history.
- April 01 - Burston Strike School began in 1914 the U.K.; the 1972 Major League Baseball strike began in the U.S. and Canada; the 1980 New York City transit strike began; the U.S. Supreme Court decided NLRB v. Truck Drivers Local 449; the Federation of Unions of South Africa was founded; the Allied Pilots Association was founded; the Loray Mill strike began in the U.S. in 1929; Sol Chick Chaikin died
- April 02 - Weldon Mathis was born; Eugene Hanley was born; the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike ended in 1995
- April 03 - Percy Wells died
- April 04 - The On-to-Ottawa Trek began in Canada in 1935; William Quesse was born; the 2006 Minor League Baseball umpire strike began in the U.S.
- April 06 - Rose Schneiderman was born; the 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike began as the Teamsters engaged in a sympathy strike; B. T. Ranadive died
- April 07 - The U.S. Supreme Court decided Lochner v. New York; Basawon Singh (Sinha) died
- April 08 - The 1998 Australian waterfront dispute began
- April 09 - John H. Dent died; the U.S. Supreme Court decided Adkins v. Children's Hospital and Bunting v. Oregon; Chris Watson was born; President Harry S. Truman nationalizes all steel mills in anticipation of the 1952 steel strike; Natascha Engel was born; Thomas Jackson was born
- April 10 - Harold J. Gibbons was born; Dolores Huerta was born; Joseph Diescho was born; George Lippard was born; Edward J. Carlough was born; Lee Batchelor was born; Anna Walentynowicz died
- April 11 - The 1980 New York City transit strike ended
- April 12 - Tom Addison was born; the U.S. Supreme Court decided NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.; the Auto-Lite strike began in 1934 in the U.S.; the Union Label Department, AFL–CIO was founded; the Memphis sanitation strike ended; the Queensland Council of Unions was founded; the Sons of Vulcan was founded
- April 13 - Henk Sneevliet died; the Laborers' International Union of North America was founded
- April 14 - Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca was born; Marvin Miller was born; Ernest Bevin died
- April 15 - A. Philip Randolph was born; Pablo Manlapit died; the American Federation of Teachers was founded; "Black Friday" occurred in 1921 in the U.K.; Aleksei Gastev died; the Trade Unions Forum was founded; Margaretta Scott was born
- April 16 - Joseph Havelock Wilson died
- April 17 - Manwel Dimech died
- April 18 - Joseph Labadie was born; R. J. Thomas died
- April 20 - Gro Harlem Brundtland was born; The Ludlow Massacre occurred in 1914 in the U.S.; the International Harvester strike of 1979–80 ended
- April 21 - The Bituminous coal miners' strike of 1894 began in the U.S.; the First Employment Contract is repealed in France in 2006
- April 22 - Frederick Nicholas Zihlman died
- April 23 - Russell Crowell was born; the Canadian Labour Congress was formed; Cesar Chavez died; the Hock Lee bus riots occurred in 1955 in Singapore; Edward Lamb was born
- April 25 - Arnold Miller was born
- April 26 - United Trade Union Centre (Lanin Sarani) was founded
- April 28 - Workers' Memorial Day; Roy Lee Williams died; Bob White was born; Greg Combet was born; Jerry Horan died; Joseph Glimco died
- April 29 - The Coeur d'Alene miners' dispute of 1899 occurred in the U.S.
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- Image 3Former headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 900 15th Street NW, Washington, D.C., in 200.
- Image 4Memorial marker for the Bay View Tragedy.
- Image 5Crowd gathered outside old City Hall during the Winnipeg general strike, June 21, 1919.
- Image 6Armed vigilantes deport striking copper miners during the Bisbee Deportation in Bisbee, Arizona, July 12, 1917.
- Image 7The Place de la Sorbonne in Paris is closed by police during the 2006 labour protests in France.
- Image 8Detail of monument to the Reesor Siding Strike of 1963.
- Image 9Protesters barricade the street on June 22 during the 2006 Oaxaca protests.
- Image 10During World War II, a female aircraft worker checks electrical assemblies at the Vega Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California.
- Image 11Joe Hill.
- Image 13Members of the United Steelworkers in Ohio phone bank other union members to educate them about critical issues in the 2008 election in the U.S.
- Image 14Richard Trumka.
- Image 17Strike leaders at the Paterson silk strike of 1913. From left, Patrick Quinlan, Carlo Tresca, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Adolph Lessig, and Bill Haywood.
- Image 18AFL–CIO unions protest outside Verizon headquarters in Philadelphia using a giant inflatable rat.
- Image 19United Mine Workers of America poster circa 1902.
- Image 20Lewis Hine's 1920 image "Power house mechanic working on steam pump," which shows a working class young American man with wrench in hand, hunched over, surrounded by the machinery that defines his work.
- Image 21The Western Federation of Miners' famous flyer entitled "Is Colorado in America?".
- Image 23Rally in Dhaka, organized by Jatiyo Nari Shramik Trade Union Kendra (National Women Workers Trade Union Centre), an organization affiliated with the Bangladesh Trade Union Kendra.
- Image 24Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.
- Image 25Union elections with an illegal firing, 1951 to 2007.
- Image 26Strike sign used by the German Train Drivers' Union in the German national rail strike of 2007.
- Image 27Union members march in Argentina on Human Rights Day in December 2005. The signs read "Worker rights are human rights..
- Image 28Mounted police chase demonstrators through Vancouver's East End during the Battle of Ballantyne Pier in 1935.
- Image 30Samuel Gompers.
- Image 31Striking teamsters armed with pipes battle police in the streets during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934.
- Image 34A. Philip Randolph.
- Image 35The front page of the Union Record on the Seattle General Strike of 1919.
- Image 36Exaggerated 19th century engraving showing flames and smoke following the Haymarket riot.
- Image 37Union members picketing recent NLRB rulings outside the agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters in November 2007.
- Image 38Striking American Railway Union members confront Illinois National Guard troops in Chicago, Illinois, during the Pullman Strike in 1894.
- Image 39Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
- Image 40An AFL–CIO protest of Rite Aid, with Rev. Mark Reisinger (Pastor of Grace United Methodist Church in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania), Bill George, and Richard Bloomingdale.
- Image 41Striking workers march moments before the Swedish military opened fire, killing five workers during the Ådalen shootings.
- Image 44Picket signs at the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike.
- Image 45Breaker boys, child laborers, working in a U.S. coal mine in 1911.
- Image 46John L. Lewis (right, President of the United Mine Workers, confers with Thomas Kennedy (left), UMW Secretary-Treasurer of the UMW, and a UMW official at the War Labor Board in 1943 about a coal miners' strike.
- Image 47Illustration from the Brisbane Worker newspaper condemning the brutality of the Queensland Police on Black Friday during the 1912 Brisbane General Strike.
- Image 48Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York) notice of subway closure during the 2005 New York City transit strike.
- Image 51Striking I.W.W. members confront Massachusetts National Guard troops in Boston, during the Lawrence textile strike in 1912.
- Image 52Cripple Creek, Colo., under martial law, during the 1894 strike.
- Image 55Political cartoon about the Coal Strike of 1902 from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
- Image 56Shields used by striking workers at the Carnegie Steel Works during the Homestead Strike in 1892.
- Image 57National Federation of Federal Employees officials sign a collective bargaining agreement with the U.S. 8th Army in October 2002.
Selected Quote
The strike is the weapon of the oppressed, of men capable of appreciating justice and having the courage to resist wrong and contend for principle. The nation had for its cornerstone a strike, and while arrogant injustice throws down the gauntlet and challenges the right to conflict, strikes will come, come by virtue of irrevocable laws, destined to have a wider sweep and greater power as men advance in intelligence and independence." |
— Eugene V. Debs. |
Did you know
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- ...that in 1962 doctors went on strike in Saskatchewan for 23 days in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the introduction of universal health insurance?
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