Portal:Organized Labour

Introduction

Image created by Walter Crane to celebrate International Workers' Day (May Day, 1 May), 1889. The image depicts workers from the five populated continents (Africa, Asia, Americas, Australia and Europe) in unity underneath an angel representing freedom, fraternity and equality.

The labour movement or labor movement consists of two main wings: the trade union movement (British English) or labor union movement (American English) on the one hand, and the political labour movement on the other.

The trade union movement (trade unionism) consists of the collective organisation of working people developed to represent and campaign for better working conditions and treatment from their employers and, by the implementation of labour and employment laws, from their governments. The standard unit of organisation is the trade union.

The political labour movement in many countries includes a political party that represents the interests of employees, often known as a "labour party" or "workers' party". Many individuals and political groups otherwise considered to represent ruling classes may be part of, and active in, the labour movement.

The labour movement developed as a response to the industrial capitalism of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, at about the same time as socialism. (Full article...)

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A COSATU organised protest in Cape Town calling for an end to state capture and for the prosecution of those involved in the administration of President Jacob Zuma.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU or Cosatu) is a trade union federation in South Africa. It was founded in 1985 and is the largest of the country's three main trade union federations, with 21 affiliated trade unions. (Full article...)

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October in Labor History

Significant dates in labour history.

October 01 - The McNamara Brothers bombed the Los Angeles Times in 1910; Israel Kugler died
October 02 - Peter J. Brennan died
October 03 - J. H. Thomas was born; Clarence Gillis was born
October 05 - The Hollywood Black Friday riot occurred during a set decorators' strike in 1945; the Winter of Discontent began in the United Kingdom in 1978; Tony Mazzocchi died
October 06 - American Dream, a film about the 1985-86 strike at Hormel, debuted; the British Seafarers' Union was founded; the South African Democratic Teachers Union was founded
October 07 - Joe Hill was born; the Structural Building Trades Alliance was formed; Joseph Labadie died
October 08 - James Kirby died; Lee Batchelor died
October 09 - The Taft–Hartley Act was invoked for the first time in U.S. history during the Steel strike of 1959; John McBride died; James J. Reynolds died
October 10 - A series of general strikes began in 1995 in France
October 11 - Joe Morris died; Joseph Lanza died
October 12 - The German Confederation of Trade Unions was founded in Munich in 1949; the general strike began in the Nigerian Oil Crisis in 2004; Edward Grayndler was born
October 13 - Sandra Feldman was born
October 14 - Matthew Guinan was born; NASCAR union leader Curtis Turner died; Marcus Thrane was born
October 15 - The International Seamen's Union was chartered by the AFL as the Seafarers International Union; the Confédération Française de l'Encadrement - Confédération Générale des Cadres was founded
October 16 - I. C. Frimu was born
October 17 - Giovanni Gronchi died
October 18 - Pablo Iglesias was born
October 19 - William Coaker was born; Bill Morris was born
October 20 - George Becker was born; William Hutcheson died; Eugene V. Debs died; Weldon Mathis died
October 21 - Gary Chaison is born
October 22 - The Confederation of Turkish Real Trade Unions was founded; Jean-Pierre Timbaud died
October 23 - The Coal strike of 1902 ended in the U.S.; James Petrillo died; Robert Courtleigh was born; Arthur Creech Jones died
October 25 - John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL–CIO; Catherine J. Bell was born; John F. Henning was born
October 27 - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil
October 28 - The Supreme Court of Canada issued a ruling in Newfoundland (Treasury Board) v. N.A.P.E.; Charlie Gordon was born
October 29 - The International Labour Organization met for the first time; the Brotherhood of Marine Engineers merged with the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association in 1957; Kevin Barron was born; James Orange was born
October 31 - 1923 Victorian police strike began in Australia; Maine AFL–CIO was founded; William O'Brien died; Mikhail Tomsky was born; Antonio Davis was born; Cecil Roberts was born

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... that after ice hockey executive Hanson Dowell suspended players on Cape Breton Island, local coal miners threatened to strike in protest?
... that during the Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003, all but one of Venezuelan chocolatier María Fernanda Di Giacobbe's ten businesses went bankrupt?
... that the day after returning to Atlanta following his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance in 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. joined picketers who were on strike against Scripto?
... that "The Strike" (1954), about an American officer's turmoil in ordering an air strike on his own men, was rated as Rod Serling's best script he had written to date?
... that a 1994 lightning strike in Egypt led to 469 deaths after oil tanks were ignited and flooded the village of Dronka with burning fuel?

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Image 1Camp put up by striking Pepsi-Cola workers, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, 2008.
Image 2Picket signs at the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike.
Image 3The Place de la Sorbonne in Paris is closed by police during the 2006 labour protests in France.
Image 4Shields used by striking workers at the Carnegie Steel Works during the Homestead Strike in 1892.
Image 5Empty Gare du Nord train station during the November 2007 strikes in France.
Image 6Knights of Labor Grand Master Workman Terence V. Powderly.
Image 7Union elections with an illegal firing, 1951 to 2007.
Image 8Strike sign used by the German Train Drivers' Union in the German national rail strike of 2007.
Image 9Barges set ablaze by steelworkers during the Homestead strike in 1892.
Image 10Rally in Dhaka, organized by Jatiyo Nari Shramik Trade Union Kendra (National Women Workers Trade Union Centre), an organization affiliated with the Bangladesh Trade Union Kendra.
Image 11Crowd gathered outside old City Hall during the Winnipeg general strike, June 21, 1919.
Image 12May Day Rally in Mumbai, India, 2004.
Image 13Detail of monument to the Reesor Siding Strike of 1963.
Image 14During World War II, a female aircraft worker checks electrical assemblies at the Vega Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California.
Image 15Illustration from the Brisbane Worker newspaper condemning the brutality of the Queensland Police on Black Friday during the 1912 Brisbane General Strike.
Image 16Public and Commercial Services Union members on strike in Manchester 2006.
Image 17Memorial marker for the Bay View Tragedy.
Image 18Union members picketing recent NLRB rulings outside the agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters in November 2007.
Image 19American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Albert Shanker.
Image 20Breaker boys, child laborers, working in a U.S. coal mine in 1911.
Image 21The Western Federation of Miners' famous flyer entitled "Is Colorado in America?".
Image 22National Federation of Federal Employees officials sign a collective bargaining agreement with the U.S. 8th Army in October 2002.
Image 23The Ludlow massacre monument located in Ludlow, Colorado, United States.
Image 24J. Warren Madden, the first Chair of the National Labor Relations Board.
Image 25Joe Hill.
Image 26United Mine Workers of America poster circa 1902.
Image 27Political cartoon about the Coal Strike of 1902 from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Image 28Mounted police chase demonstrators through Vancouver's East End during the Battle of Ballantyne Pier in 1935.
Image 29Striking workers march moments before the Swedish military opened fire, killing five workers during the Ådalen shootings.
Image 30Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.
Image 31Striking teamsters armed with pipes battle police in the streets during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934.
Image 32Armed vigilantes deport striking copper miners during the Bisbee Deportation in Bisbee, Arizona, July 12, 1917.
Image 33An AFL–CIO protest of Rite Aid, with Rev. Mark Reisinger (Pastor of Grace United Methodist Church in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania), Bill George, and Richard Bloomingdale.
Image 34Samuel Gompers.
Image 35Striking I.W.W. members confront Massachusetts National Guard troops in Boston, during the Lawrence textile strike in 1912.
Image 36Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, and his wife, circa 1908.
Image 37AFL–CIO unions protest outside Verizon headquarters in Philadelphia using a giant inflatable rat.
Image 38A. Philip Randolph.
Image 39Wilma B. Liebman, chair, NLRB.
Image 40Protesters barricade the street on June 22 during the 2006 Oaxaca protests.
Image 41Cripple Creek, Colo., under martial law, during the 1894 strike.
Image 42Lewis Hine's 1920 image "Power house mechanic working on steam pump," which shows a working class young American man with wrench in hand, hunched over, surrounded by the machinery that defines his work.
Image 43Striking American Railway Union members confront Illinois National Guard troops in Chicago, Illinois, during the Pullman Strike in 1894.
Image 44George Meany, former leader of the AFL–CIO.
Image 45Union members march in Argentina on Human Rights Day in December 2005. The signs read "Worker rights are human rights..
Image 46William Green, president of the AFL–CIO from 1924 to 1952.
Image 47Strike leaders at the Paterson silk strike of 1913. From left, Patrick Quinlan, Carlo Tresca, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Adolph Lessig, and Bill Haywood.
Image 48Richard Trumka.
Image 49Registered nurses on strike in 2006 outside Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
Image 50Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York) notice of subway closure during the 2005 New York City transit strike.
Image 51Big Bill Haywood, a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Image 52Former headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 900 15th Street NW, Washington, D.C., in 200.
Image 53Australian industrial relations legislation national day of protest, 2005.
Image 54The front page of the Union Record on the Seattle General Strike of 1919.
Image 55John L. Lewis (right, President of the United Mine Workers, confers with Thomas Kennedy (left), UMW Secretary-Treasurer of the UMW, and a UMW official at the War Labor Board in 1943 about a coal miners' strike.
Image 56Members of the United Steelworkers in Ohio phone bank other union members to educate them about critical issues in the 2008 election in the U.S.
Image 57Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
Image 58Exaggerated 19th century engraving showing flames and smoke following the Haymarket riot.

Selected Quote

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth."

— Wendell Phillips.

Did you know

...that Benjamin Aaron helped negotiate the first contract between a county and its public employee union in California history in 1968?
...that although an Iron Workers union member planted the dynamite in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, the 21 people who died in the explosion and fire were all workers and not managers?
...that the Occupational Safety and Health Act went into effect in the United States on April 28, 1971, the same day as Workers' Memorial Day?

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