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The agency shop portion of this had previously been contested with support of National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation in Communications Workers of America v. Beck, resulting in "Beck rights" preventing agency fees from being used for expenses outside of collective bargaining if the non-union worker notifies the union of their objection ...
Slugging"—the beating of non-union workers or union members who crossed picket lines—became common. [2] The EA mustered its substantial resources to break the Teamsters' support for the striking tailors. The EA collected $250,000 (about $6.7 million in 2017 dollars) from its members to hire strikebreakers.
Like LERA, its parent organization, EPRN is non-profit and non-partisan. EPRN divides the large subject of employment and work into 15 topics and research clusters of 20–40 researchers: Employment regulations; Equal employment opportunity; Globalization, employment and labor Standards; Immigration; Industry studies/strategies; Labor and ...
Herrin massacre: [30] Thirty-six people are killed, 21 of them non-union miners, during a coal-mine strike at Herrin, Illinois. July 1922 (United States) Great Railroad Strike of 1922. [30] 15 November 1922 (Ecuador) A three-day general strike in Guayaquil ends after police and military kill at least 300 strikers. 1 September 1922 (United States)
The 1872–73 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 4, 1872, and April 7, 1873. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 43rd United States Congress convened on December 1, 1873.
Results from the Canadian general Social Survey (GSS) in 1998 demonstrate that union work environments increase total compensation by 12.4 percent, and 10.4 percent by wages. [6] In terms of total compensation, the empirical data suggests that unions have achieved larger fringe benefits for their members in comparison to non-union.
Working America is the political organizing arm of the AFL–CIO. [3] Its membership is made up of non-union individuals. [1] It is the largest non-union workers' group in the United States, with a self-reported membership of 3.2 million individuals. [2] Working America advocates for progressive policy issues. The organization recruits people ...
The Herrin massacre took place on June 21–22, 1922 in Herrin, Illinois, in a coal mining area during a nationwide strike by the United Mineworkers of America (UMWA). ). Although the owner of the mine originally agreed with the union to observe the strike, when the price of coal went up, he hired non-union workers to produce and ship out coal, as he had high debt in start-