Examples of craft unionism in the following topics:
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- The National Labor Union (NLU) was the first American federation of unions formed in 1866.
- One example was the American Federation of Labor, a large umbrella group made up primarily of locals involved in craft unionism.
- The CIO was built around an industrial unionism model.
- The Pullman's union and the United Farm Workers unions are examples of unions that came together to advocate for the economic interests of African-American and latino workers.
- While private union membership has declined, public unions are still quite strong.
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- The Citizens United case held that it was unconstitutional to ban campaign financial contributions by corporations, associations and unions.
- The Supreme Court held in Citizens United that it was unconstitutional to ban free speech through the limitation of independent communications by corporations, associations and unions.
- Justice Kennedy's majority opinion found that the BCRA prohibition of all independent expenditures by corporations and unions violated the First Amendment's protection of free speech.
- A lobbyist can now tell any elected official: if you vote wrong, my company, labor union or interest group will spend unlimited sums explicitly advertising against your re-election. " The New York Times reported that 24 states with laws prohibiting or limiting independent expenditures by unions and corporations would have to change their campaign finance laws because of the ruling.
- Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion found that the BCRA prohibition of all independent expenditures by corporations and unions violated the First Amendment's protection of free speech.
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- Federal Election Commission that laws prohibiting corporate and union political expenditures were unconstitutional.
- Citizens United made it legal for corporations and unions to spend from their general treasuries to finance independent expenditures, but did not alter the prohibition on direct corporate or union contributions to federal campaigns; those are still prohibited.
- Congress prohibited labor unions or corporations from spending money to influence federal elections, and prohibited labor unions from contributing to candidate campaigns.
- Labor unions moved to work around these limitations by establishing political action committees, to which members could contribute.
- Also unlike traditional PACs, they can raise funds from corporations, unions and other groups, and from individuals, without legal limits.
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- An important example for this are trade unions, educational unions, and labor unions .
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- Railroads were the major industry, but the factory system, mining, and labor unions also gained in importance .
- Furthermore, most of the growth and prosperity came in the North and West - states that had been part of the Union.
- Gilded Age politics, called the Third Party System, were characterized by rampant corruption and intense competition between the two parties (with minor parties coming and going), especially on issues of Prohibitionist, labor unions and farmers.
- It was dominated by the new Republican Party (also known as the Grand Old Party or GOP), which claimed success in saving the Union, abolishing slavery and enfranchising the freedmen, while adopting many Whiggish modernization programs such as national banks, railroads, high tariffs, homesteads, social spending (such as on greater Civil War veteran pension funding), and aid to land grant colleges.
- The period featured a transformation from the issues of the Third Party System, instead focusing on domestic issues such as regulation of railroads and large corporations ("trusts"), the money issue (gold versus silver), the protective tariff, the role of labor unions, child labor, the need for a new banking system, corruption in party politics, primary elections, direct election of senators, racial segregation, efficiency in government, women's suffrage, and control of immigration.
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- The term is often used in reference to the general easing of relations between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1971, a thawing at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War.
- Among other issues, one of the most prevalent and discussed after the conference was the human rights violations in the Soviet Union.
- The Soviet Constitution directly violated the declaration of Human Rights from the United Nations, and this issue became a prominent point of dissonance between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- Because the Carter administration had been supporting human rights groups inside the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev accused the administration of interference in other countries' internal affairs.
- Furthermore, the Soviet Union proceeded to defend their internal policies on human rights by attacking American support of countries like South Africa and Chile, which were known to violate many of the same human rights issues.
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- The Taft-Hartley Act (also known as the "Labor-Management Relations Act"), passed in 1947, loosened some of the restrictions on employers, changed NLRB election procedures, and added a number of limitations on unions.
- The Act, among other things, prohibits jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts by unions, and authorizes individual states to pass "right-to-work laws", regulates pension and other benefit plans established by unions and provides that federal courts have jurisdiction to enforce collective bargaining agreements.
- The federal government, along with many state governments, also requires employers to pay the prevailing wage to workers on public works projects, a practice which typically reflects the standards established by unions' collective bargaining agreements in the area.
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- Political parties are lobbied vigorously by organizations, businesses, and special interest groups such as trades unions.
- When the Labor Party was first formed, it was largely funded by trade unions.
- For example, the Labour Party in the UK was formed out of the new trade-union movement, which lobbied for the rights of workers.
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- These reports may be either written or oral, but today are given as the State of the Union address, which often outlines the president's legislative proposals for the coming year.
- Union Trust Building, Washington D.C.Home to the American Bar Association's Branch office
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- The group of committees was the beginning of what later became a formal political union among the colonies.
- In June 1774, the Virginia and Massachusetts assemblies independently proposed an intercolonial meeting of delegates from the several colonies to restore the union between Great Britain and the American colonies.