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1914 (United States) According to a report by the Commission on Industrial Relations, approximately 35,000 workers were killed in industrial accidents and 700,000 workers were injured in the U.S. 1914 (United States) U.S. Congress passes the Clayton Antitrust Act limiting the use of injunctions in labor disputes. [26] 1914 (United States)
Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, No. 16-1466, 585 U.S. ___ (2018), abbreviated Janus v.AFSCME, is a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court on US labor law, concerning the power of labor unions to collect fees from non-union members.
In September 2018, Brandeis University became the second private university to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement for graduate student employees, [5] followed by Tufts University in October 2018 [6] and Harvard in July 2020. [7] American University and New School were in the process of negotiating an agreement as of September 2018. [5]
Active Canadian graduate student employee bargaining units, established or publicly announced [a] Province School Unit Name Unit Nickname Status [b] Union Local QC McGill University (Université McGill) Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill (L’Association des étudiant.e.s diplômé.e.s employé.e.s de McGill) [179] AGSEM ...
Collective bargaining is now permitted in three fourths of U.S. states. [16] By the 1960s and 1970s public-sector unions expanded rapidly to cover teachers, clerks, firemen, police, prison guards and others. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10988, upgrading the status of unions of federal workers. [17]
On March 3, 2018, two days before the beginning of the strike, York University stated in a labour update that if all of CUPE 3903's 110 proposals were accepted, operating labour costs would increase by 57%, up from $70 million to $109 million over three years, out of a total spending of $715 million in labour costs annually.
The unit was the largest NFFE chapter in the country, the largest local union in the country, and the largest women's union in the country. [4] NFFE also quickly abandoned its craft focus. Some local chapters—especially those in large federal agencies in Washington, D.C., where the number of workers enabled craft-based bargaining units to ...
Cesario Estrada Chavez (/ ˈ tʃ ɑː v ɛ z /; Spanish:; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and lesser known Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union.