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In particular, a dispute over members at General Accident was referred to the Trades Union Congress Disputes Committee and the fall-out led to APEX's general secretary, Roy Grantham, failing to win re-election to the General Council of the TUC. [1] In 1989 APEX merged with the GMB trade union and now exists as a section within the GMB.
Community union membership may be based on ethnic, racial, religious affiliations and geographic areas. [6] [12] US community unions vary in their organizational framework. They reflect the four structures of community unions. [6] For example: Community organization/ no union partner: Worker centers fall into this category. [6]
The organizing model, as the term refers to trade unions (and sometimes other social-movement organizations), is a broad conception of how those organizations should recruit, operate, and advance the interests of their members, though the specific functions of the model are more detailed and are discussed at length below.
On February 18, 2009, CNA/NNOC announced that it is joining with two other nurses unions, the Massachusetts Nurses Association and the United American Nurses, to create a 150,000-member union. The organization is called National Nurses United [11] and is affiliated with the AFL–CIO. Deborah Burger, co-president of CNA/NNOC said that the new ...
ADRIAN — The union representing workers at Lenawee Medical Care Facility has alleged that state funds meant to increase employee pay were misappropriated. The nursing home's administration ...
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, [1] such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of ...
Historically, the rapid growth of public employee unions since the 1960s has served to mask an even more dramatic decline in private-sector union membership. At the apex of union density in the 1940s, only about 9.8% of public employees were represented by unions, while 33.9% of private, non-agricultural workers had such representation.
Story at a glance The nation’s largest union of registered nurses has sent a letter to senators in support of the Women’s Health Protection Act. The act would codify the federal right to an ...