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In 2009, the US membership of public sector unions surpassed membership of private sector unions for the first time, at 7.9 million and 7.4 million respectively. [ 242 ] In 2011, states faced a growing fiscal crisis and the Republicans had made major gains in the 2010 elections .
1893 (United States) Unions helped win the passage of the Safety Appliance Act. Among other things, the Act outlawed the "old man-killer link and pin coupler" by railroads. 1894 (United Kingdom) History of Trade Unionism, the influential book by Sidney and Beatrice Webb is first published. 1894 (United States) Coxey's Army marched on Washington ...
Throughout the history of labor in the United States, many workers have gone on strike. ... 1940 [14] 576,988 1941 [15] 2,362,620 Disney animators' strike; 1942 [16]
The CIO itself was slower to join the purge. Persons associated with the CP did, in fact, exercise a good deal of influence in a number of CIO unions in the 1940s, both in the leadership of unions such as the ILWU, UE, Transport Workers Union of America and Fur and Leather Workers and in staff positions in a number of other unions. Those ...
Unions such as the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) were devastated by the Palmer Raids, carried out as part of the First Red Scare.The Everett Massacre (also known as Bloody Sunday) was an armed confrontation between local authorities and IWW members which took place in Everett, Washington on Sunday, November 5, 1916.
1. National Education Association of the United States (NEA) Total membership: 3,002,516 Description: Public school employees including but not limited to teachers, education support professionals ...
Trade unions established in 1949 (4 C, 43 P) Pages in category "Trade unions established in the 1940s" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
From 1983 to 2015, union rolls shrank by nearly 3 million workers even as over 45 million more people joined the workforce, and the proportion of workers in a union was cut in half over that same ...