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Há 2 dias · The founding of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) by several unions of skilled workers in 1886 marked the beginning of a continuous large-scale labour movement in the United States. Its member groups comprised national trade or craft unions that organized local unions and negotiated wages, hours, and working conditions.
Há 2 dias · Labor unions advocate for the employees and proactively address collective needs. One fundamental principle in every union contract, according to Steffens, is ‘just cause’, meaning that you can’t be fired unless the employer can demonstrate a legitimate reason for termination. There could still be layoffs for financial reasons, but they ...
Há 6 dias · They were affiliated with the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor, the railroad brotherhoods, the Teamsters and the American Railway Union, and they created cooperatives, mutual ...
Há 4 dias · AFL Member Expresses Worry About Women in Industry (1897) · SHEC: Resources for Teachers. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, many Americans worried about the social and economic consequences of the visibly growing numbers of women employed in U.S. factories.
Há 5 dias · United Automobile Workers (UAW), North American industrial union of automotive and other vehicular workers, headquartered in Detroit, Mich., and representing workers in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
Há 4 dias · The nativist movement of the 1920s was broadly based, backed by a coalition of groups that ranged from the American Federation of Labor, which feared new immigrants would drive its members’...
Há 3 dias · About Us. The seeds of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers were planted at an electrical exposition in St. Louis, Missouri in 1890, when American Federation of Labor (AFL) organizer Charles Cassel granted a charter to a group of “Wiremen” and “Linemen” who were seeking a better way of life for electrical ...
