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Women and trade unions: an outline history of women in the British trade union movement (E. Benn, 1977). Lovell, John. British Trade Unions 1875–1933 (Macmillan Education UK 1977) 74 Pages; Minkin, Lewis. "The British Labour Party and the Trade Unions: Crisis and Compact" ILR 28#1 (1974) pp. 7–37. online; Minkin, Lewis.
London Convention signatories. The Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter 1972, commonly called the "London Convention" or "LC '72" and also abbreviated as Marine Dumping, is an agreement to control pollution of the sea by dumping and to encourage regional agreements supplementary to the convention.
Much like corporations, [3] trade unions were regarded as criminal until the Combination Act 1825, and were regarded as quasi-legal organisations, subjected to the restraint of trade doctrine, until the Trade Union Act 1871. This Act abolished common-law restrictions, but took an abstentionist stance to unions' internal affairs.
Several months later, big banks According to Javelin Strategy and Research, the big-bank oriented protest had a statistically significant impact. For once, people were fed up enough to take action.
This was designed to ensure that courts did not interfere in union affairs. Section 6 provided a system of voluntary registration, which carried some small advantages. It also allowed union members to access the financial records of the union (now ss 28-30, Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 [3])
The Combination Act 1799 (39 Geo. 3. c. 81) titled "An Act to prevent Unlawful Combinations of Workmen", prohibited trade unions and collective bargaining by British workers. The act received royal assent on 12 July 1799. An additional act, the Combination Act 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 106), was passed the following year.
The act was passed in response to large amounts of garbage washing up on the beaches of Sydney and Newcastle from vessels outside the reach of local governments and the New South Wales government. [83] It was repealed and replaced by the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981, which gave effect to the London Convention. [84]
The Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union (AMWU) was a trade union of sailors, firemen and ship-board service personnel which existed in the United Kingdom between 1922 and 1927. It was a merger of the British Seafarers' Union and the National Union of Ship's Stewards , both of which were opposed to the principal trade union in the shipping ...