Portal:Organized Labour

Introduction

Image created by Walter Crane to celebrate International Workers' Day (May Day, 1 May), 1889. The image depicts workers from the five populated continents (Africa, Asia, Americas, Australia and Europe) in unity underneath an angel representing freedom, fraternity and equality.

The labour movement or labor movement consists of two main wings: the trade union movement (British English) or labor union movement (American English) on the one hand, and the political labour movement on the other.

The trade union movement (trade unionism) consists of the collective organisation of working people developed to represent and campaign for better working conditions and treatment from their employers and, by the implementation of labour and employment laws, from their governments. The standard unit of organisation is the trade union.

The political labour movement in many countries includes a political party that represents the interests of employees, often known as a "labour party" or "workers' party". Many individuals and political groups otherwise considered to represent ruling classes may be part of, and active in, the labour movement.

The labour movement developed as a response to the industrial capitalism of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, at about the same time as socialism. (Full article...)

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The ACFTU building in Beijing

The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is the national trade union center and people's organization of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest trade union in the world with 302 million members in 1,713,000 primary trade union organizations. The ACFTU is divided into 31 and 10. The ACFTU is the country's sole legally mandated trade union, with which all enterprise-level trade unions must be affiliated. There has been dispute over whether ACFTU is an independent trade union or even a trade union at all. It directs a public college, the China University of Labor Relations. (Full article...)

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December in Labor History

Significant dates in labour history.

December 01 - W. A. Boyle was born; the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union was dissolved
December 02 - The Professional Footballers' Association was founded
December 03 - Tom Mooney died
December 04 - The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations were dissolved; George L. Berry died; the 2007 South Africa miners' strike occurred
December 05 - The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL–CIO
December 06 - Santa Marta massacre occurred in Colombia in 1928; the Bituminous coal strike of 1977–78 began in the U.S.; the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance was founded
December 07 - The International Union of Operating Engineers was founded; the Fiji Teachers Union was founded; Vere Bird was born
December 08 - Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions disbanded to from the American Federation of Labor; Anil Moonesinghe died; Bernice Fisher was born
December 09 - Thomas Hepburn died; the International Federation of Building and Wood Workers was dissolved; Bob Hawke was born; Selig Perlman was born; Pablo Iglesias died
December 10 - Jean Maitron is born; the American Federation of Teachers won its first collective bargaining election
December 11 - The Union of Democratic Mineworkers was founded
December 12 - Ron Carey died; Michael Ratchford died; Anthony Provenzano died; Charles Ballam died; Tommy Lewis was born
December 13 - Samuel Gompers died; Bernard Kleiman died; William Spence died; the U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Wheeler
December 15 - George Hardy was born; George W. Taylor died; Chico Mendes was born; Mark Hewitson was born; Clinton Jencks died
December 16 - The Rothbury riot occurred in 1929 in Australia
December 17 - Clarence Gillis died; Mustafa al-Hallaj died
December 18 - The Transport and General Workers' Union and Amicus voted to merge into a new union, Unite, in 2006; the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers was formed; the Supreme Court of Canada issued its landmark ruling in RWDSU v. Dolphin Delivery Ltd.; Douglas Fraser was born; Randi Weingarten was born
December 19 - Frank Keys Foster was born; the Ford Strike of 1945 in Canada ended; B. T. Ranadive was born
December 20 - The 2005 New York City transit strike began; two of the Sydney Twelve were executed in Australia in 1916; the Supreme Court of Canada issued its landmark ruling in Dunmore v. Ontario (Attorney General); the Occupational Safety and Health Act became law in the U.S. in 1970; Richard Cordtz was born
December 21 - William Usery Jr. was born
December 22 - Chico Mendes died; the 2005 New York City transit strike ended
December 23 - 1929 Australian timber workers' strike began; Gunnar Sträng was born; Derek Simpson was born; Ella Vogelaar was born
December 24 - Ed Boyce died; the Electrical Trades Union of Australia was formed; Italian Hall Disaster in 1913
December 25 - Ed Hochuli was born; Bartholomew Ulufa'alu was born; Philip Vera Cruz was born
December 26 - A series of general strikes began in 1996 in South Korea; Dave Beck died
December 27 - Cyrus S. Ching died; Free Workers' Union of Germany was founded; William Konyha died; John La Rose was born; Makhan Singh was born
December 28 - Agnes Nestor died
December 29 - Flint sit-down strike began in 1936; the Indian Labour Organization was founded; Ted Theodore was born
December 30 - Bill Tytla died
December 31 - The International Typographical Union was dissolved; Joseph Yablonski was murdered on the orders of United Mine Workers president W. A. Boyle; John Garden died

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Image 1The Western Federation of Miners' famous flyer entitled "Is Colorado in America?".
Image 2Strike leaders at the Paterson silk strike of 1913. From left, Patrick Quinlan, Carlo Tresca, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Adolph Lessig, and Bill Haywood.
Image 3The Ludlow massacre monument located in Ludlow, Colorado, United States.
Image 4Mounted police chase demonstrators through Vancouver's East End during the Battle of Ballantyne Pier in 1935.
Image 5May Day Rally in Mumbai, India, 2004.
Image 6Illustration from the Brisbane Worker newspaper condemning the brutality of the Queensland Police on Black Friday during the 1912 Brisbane General Strike.
Image 7Lewis 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 8Breaker boys, child laborers, working in a U.S. coal mine in 1911.
Image 9Crowd gathered outside old City Hall during the Winnipeg general strike, June 21, 1919.
Image 10An 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 11AFL–CIO unions protest outside Verizon headquarters in Philadelphia using a giant inflatable rat.
Image 12Political cartoon about the Coal Strike of 1902 from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Image 13Camp put up by striking Pepsi-Cola workers, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, 2008.
Image 14American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Albert Shanker.
Image 15Registered nurses on strike in 2006 outside Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
Image 16Barges set ablaze by steelworkers during the Homestead strike in 1892.
Image 17Protesters barricade the street on June 22 during the 2006 Oaxaca protests.
Image 18Empty Gare du Nord train station during the November 2007 strikes in France.
Image 19During World War II, a female aircraft worker checks electrical assemblies at the Vega Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California.
Image 20Detail of monument to the Reesor Siding Strike of 1963.
Image 21Richard Trumka.
Image 22Rally 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 23United Mine Workers of America poster circa 1902.
Image 24Big Bill Haywood, a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Image 25National Federation of Federal Employees officials sign a collective bargaining agreement with the U.S. 8th Army in October 2002.
Image 26Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, and his wife, circa 1908.
Image 27John 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 28William Green, president of the AFL–CIO from 1924 to 1952.
Image 29Strike sign used by the German Train Drivers' Union in the German national rail strike of 2007.
Image 30Wilma B. Liebman, chair, NLRB.
Image 31Picket signs at the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike.
Image 32Cripple Creek, Colo., under martial law, during the 1894 strike.
Image 33Striking teamsters armed with pipes battle police in the streets during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934.
Image 34Union members march in Argentina on Human Rights Day in December 2005. The signs read "Worker rights are human rights..
Image 35Union elections with an illegal firing, 1951 to 2007.
Image 36Exaggerated 19th century engraving showing flames and smoke following the Haymarket riot.
Image 37Members 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 38Union members picketing recent NLRB rulings outside the agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters in November 2007.
Image 39Striking American Railway Union members confront Illinois National Guard troops in Chicago, Illinois, during the Pullman Strike in 1894.
Image 40J. Warren Madden, the first Chair of the National Labor Relations Board.
Image 41Former headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 900 15th Street NW, Washington, D.C., in 200.
Image 42Joe Hill.
Image 43The front page of the Union Record on the Seattle General Strike of 1919.
Image 44Shields used by striking workers at the Carnegie Steel Works during the Homestead Strike in 1892.
Image 45The Place de la Sorbonne in Paris is closed by police during the 2006 labour protests in France.
Image 46Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.
Image 47Australian industrial relations legislation national day of protest, 2005.
Image 48Striking workers march moments before the Swedish military opened fire, killing five workers during the Ådalen shootings.
Image 49Armed vigilantes deport striking copper miners during the Bisbee Deportation in Bisbee, Arizona, July 12, 1917.
Image 50Striking I.W.W. members confront Massachusetts National Guard troops in Boston, during the Lawrence textile strike in 1912.
Image 51A. Philip Randolph.
Image 52Knights of Labor Grand Master Workman Terence V. Powderly.
Image 53Public and Commercial Services Union members on strike in Manchester 2006.
Image 54Samuel Gompers.
Image 55George Meany, former leader of the AFL–CIO.
Image 56Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York) notice of subway closure during the 2005 New York City transit strike.
Image 57Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
Image 58Memorial marker for the Bay View Tragedy.

Selected Quote

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice."

— Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Did you know

...that firing of Anna Walentynowicz, a Polish free trade union activist, was one of the events that led to the giant wave of strikes in Poland and eventually the creation of Solidarity?
...that the short-lived Industrial Syndicalist Education League was both the first and the largest syndicalist organisation ever in the United Kingdom?
...that the first trade union in Botswana was not recognised by the ruling Bechuanaland Protectorate until 1964, 16 years after its formation?

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