- Industry: Government; Labor
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Unions which look beyond immediate objectives to try to reform social conditions and which also consider unionism as a means of appealing to needs of members which are not strictly economic. In addition to fighting for economic gains, social unions have education, health, welfare, artistic, recreation, and citizenship programs to attempt to satisfy needs of members' whole personalities. Labor, social unionists believe, has an obligation to better the general society.
Industry:Labor
A word used by workers to describe employer attempts to increase their output without increasing their wages.
Industry:Labor
A form of protest where workers deliberately lessen the amount of work for a particular purpose.
Industry:Labor
In June, 1934, Rex Murray, president of the General Tire local in Akron, Ohio, discussed a pending strike with fellow unionists. If they hit the bricks, the police would beat them up. But if they sat down inside the plant and hugged the machines, the police wouldn't use violence. They might hurt the machines! So began the era of the sitdown strikes effectively used by unions like the Rubber Workers and Auto Workers to build the CIO. The sit down period lasted only through 1937, but it provided labor history with one of its most colorful chapters.
Industry:Labor
Generally used in public employment to describe unfair labor practices on the part of employer and employee organizations.
Industry:Labor
Also known as the "Wagner Act" after the law's chief sponsor, Senator Robert Wagner of New York. It represented a fundamental turnaround in government's attitudes toward labor relations. The law created a National Labor Relations Board to carry out its goals of guaranteeing the right of workers to form unions of their own choosing and to bargain collectively with employers.
Industry:Labor
Established by the Knights of Labor in the 1880s. Shop unions in the factory carried out the rule enforcements of the local assemblies.
Industry:Labor
Money, usually the equivalent of union dues, which members of an agency shop bargaining unit pay the union for negotiating and administering the collective bargaining agreement.
Industry:Labor
Payment to a worker who is permanently laid off his job through no fault of his own.
Industry:Labor
A worker's length of service with an employer. In union contracts, seniority often determines layoffs from work and recalls back to work.
Industry:Labor
