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The Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 soon replaced the unfair dismissal provisions, as was the National Industrial Relations Court with a system of Industrial Tribunals, since renamed Employment Tribunals. These have one legally qualified chairperson and two lay members, one representing unions and the other representing employers.
The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) was officially founded. With 134 million members it is the largest trade union in the world. However many, such as the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, maintain the position that the ACFTU is not an independent trade union organization.
The Global Rights Index is a world-wide assessment of trade union and human rights by country. Updated annually in a report issued by the International Trade Union Confederation, the index rates countries on a scale from 1 (best) through to 5+ (worst).
The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium (1999) online; Montgomery, David. "Strikes in Nineteenth-Century America," Social Science History (1980) 4#1 pp. 81–104 in JSTOR, some comparative data; Murillo, Maria Victoria. Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions and Market Reforms in Latin America (2001) online
Also, the first strike was a result of the problem between wage earners and union officials, not employers and unions or employers and wage-earners, which was the main conflict of this time. [3] Since the problem was within unions and not between unions and employers, the Labor Problem had not yet become an issue.
In 1977, following the fatal attack by members of the CFT on a CGT member, the CFT rebranded itself as the Confederation of Free Trade Unions (CSL). [5] The name change marked an attempt to distance itself from its violent past. The CSL's influence waned in the 1980s and 1990s as public funding and employer support declined.
A demarcation dispute may involve disagreement between trade unions, craft organisations or professional groups over which workers are to perform certain tasks or which trade union or organisations will represent a particular group of workers, especially in enterprises with multiple trade unionism or skilled trades. [1] [2] This is particularly ...
[1] [2] Under the 1992 Labour Code, trade unions must be registered by the government, public sector teacher unions in particular have been rejected. Agriculture and informal workers – a majority of Cameroon workforce are excluded from joining or forming trade unions. Trade unions cannot mix both public and private sector workers. The right ...