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National Trades' Union formed in New York when the New York General Trades' Union solicited labor organizations from around the country to send delegates to a national convention. [8] This union was the first attempt to create a national labor federation. [6] 1834 (United States) Lowell, Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike. [6] 1834 (United States)
Its original goals were to encourage the formation of trade unions and to obtain legislation, such as prohibition of child labor, a national eight-hour workday, and exclusion of Chinese and other foreign contract workers. [33] [34] Strikes organized by labor unions became routine events by the 1880s. There were 37,000 strikes between 1881 and 1905.
The Contentious Alliance: Trade Unions and the Labour Party (1991). online; Musson, A E. Trade Union and Social History (1974). Pelling, Henry. A history of British trade unionism (1987). Pimlott, Ben, and Chris Cook, eds Trade Unions in British Politics: The First 250 Years (2nd ed. 1991), 16 topical essays by experts; Pollard, Sidney.
Union activity then being a criminal offence, 24 members of the strike committee are jailed for conspiracy. John A Macdonald's Conservative government passed the Trade Unions Act on June 14, legalizing trade unions. [3] April 15, 1872, the Toronto Trades Assembly hold the country's first significant workers demonstration.
Union busting is a term used by labor organizations and trade unions to describe the activities that may be undertaken by employers, their proxies, workers and in certain instances states and governments usually triggered by events such as picketing, card check, worker organizing, and strike actions. [1]
Leonard Levy went so far as to refer to Hunt as the "Magna Carta of American trade-unionism," [10] illustrating its perceived standing as the major point of divergence in the American and English legal treatment of unions which, "removed the stigma of criminality from labor organizations." [10] However, case law in American prior to Hunt was mixed.
Official website of the AFL–CIO, the largest federation of trade unions in the U.S. Official website of the Strategic Organizing Center (formerly the Change to Win Federation), the second-largest federation of trade unions in the U.S. The U.S. Labor Movement Is Popular, Prominent and Also Shrinking - The New York Times interactive (2022)
The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) is an international federation of trade unions established in 1945. Founded in the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the organization built on the pre-war legacy of the International Federation of Trade Unions as a single structure for trade unions world-wide, following the World Trade Union Conference in London, United Kingdom.