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Back in the Netherlands, Sneevliet became active in the fledgling communist movement, becoming a salaried official of the party's National Labor Secretariat (NAS) and helping to organize a major transportation strike in 1920. [2]
It initially grew rapidly, but lost many of its members after an unsuccessful strike in 1903. [1] [2] In 1906, the union was a founding affiliate of the Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions. [2] It grew again from 1916, becoming the largest union in the industry, [1] and by 1921, it had 20,784 members. [3]
The company's only wartime strike was during the Dutch famine of 1944–45; NS opted not to strike a year earlier. NS played a pivotal role in the post-war reconstruction of the Netherlands; it provided the required logistical services in a time when there was little alternative to rail transport. The company declined in the 1960s – like many ...
The railroad strikes of 1903 were strikes in the Netherlands, of the railway staff, regarding the right of workers to organize into a union and negotiate and implement the right to strike. At the beginning of the 20th century, some employers allowed their workers to have union membership, while in some companies, union membership was obligatory.
The history of rail transport in the Netherlands is generally considered to have begun on September 20, 1839, when the first train, drawn by De Arend, successfully made the 16 km (9.9 mi) trip from Amsterdam to Haarlem. However, the first plan for a railroad in the Netherlands was launched only shortly after the first railroad opened in Britain.
Line 12 in Utrecht was the busiest bus line in the Netherlands, with up to 30 departures per hour using bi-articulated buses. During peak times there was no fixed frequency, but staff members on the bus platforms monitored the passenger flow and would call a new bus in as soon as the previous bus was filled.
Rail transportation labor disputes in the United States (3 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Rail transport strikes" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...