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Social movement unionism (SMU) is a trend of theory and practice in contemporary trade unionism.Strongly associated with the labour movements of developing countries, social movement unionism is distinct from many other models of trade unionism because it concerns itself with more than organizing workers around workplace issues, pay and terms and conditions.
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. [2]
Company leaders can sometimes take union organizing as a personal rebuke, particularly if the company is family-owned or if management considers its culture tight-knit. But how company leaders and ...
A company or "yellow" union is a worker organization which is dominated or unduly influenced by an employer and is therefore not an independent trade union.Company unions are contrary to international labour law (see ILO Convention 98, Article 2). [1]
The real question is whether the company will draw the right lessons from the union organizing drive: that unions and management can be partners, not invariably adversaries, that demonizing unions ...
Dos and don'ts for managers as “hot labor summer” continues.
A unionized co-operative is a co-operative which is beholden to active legal involvement by trade unions in the representation of the worker-owners' interests. [1]While they may be considered unnecessary in most cases, trade union involvement and membership may be welcomed by some co-operatives, be it to show voluntary solidarity with the organized labor movement's own history of struggle or ...
In Canada, the One Big Union – Industrial Unionism – has captured the imagination of the organized workers. The One Big Union directed the great general strike in Canada; but, says an observer, "the International Brotherhoods have come out against the strikers, shrewdly foreseeing in the One Big Union the destruction of their organization."