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  2. Labor unions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    At the apex of union density in the 1940s, only about 9.8% of public employees were represented by unions, while 33.9% of private, non-agricultural workers had such representation. In this decade, those proportions have essentially reversed, with 36% of public workers being represented by unions while private sector union density had plummeted ...

  3. Labor history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    A number of unions were created in the Lower East Side during the beginning of the 20th century. Most were organized by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union , an organization that was founded in 1900 and, while initially founded by and only accessible to men, went on to be run by many Jewish women who advocated for education as a ...

  4. Unionization - Wikipedia

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    Unionization is the creation and growth of modern trade unions.Trade unions were often seen as a left-wing, socialist concept, [1] whose popularity has increased during the 19th century when a rise in industrial capitalism saw a decrease in motives for up-keeping workers' rights.

  5. Trade union - Wikipedia

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    A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, [1] such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of ...

  6. Why thousands of workers in Florida are losing their labor ...

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    Almost all teachers unions were able to stay intact under the 50% threshold, with the exception of Jefferson County, ... The AFSCME union was created in 1932 in Wisconsin, the state where public ...

  7. Public-sector trade unions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2010 8.4 million government workers were represented by unions, [19] including 31% of federal workers, 35% of state workers and 46% of local workers. [20] As Daniel Disalvo notes, "In today's public sector, good pay, generous benefits, and job security make possible a stable middle-class existence for nearly everyone from janitors to jailors."

  8. Column: American unions have finally remembered how to win

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    The UAW's great new contracts with GM, Stellantis and Ford show that union solidarity and concrete goals bring major victories for workers for the first time in decades.

  9. Why Millennials Are Pro-Union But Don't Actually Join Them - AOL

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    Buried in a Pew Research survey released earlier this year is an interesting tidbit: Millennials (people born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s) hold a much more favorable view of labor ...