Labor Unions

Labor unions represent United States workers in many industries recognized under US labor law since the 1935 enactment of the National Labor Relations Act. Their activity today centers on collective bargaining over wages, benefits, and working conditions for their membership, and on representing their members in disputes with management over violations of contract provisions. Larger labor unions also typically engage in lobbying activities and electioneering at the state and federal level. Most unions in the United States are aligned with one of two larger umbrella organizations: the AFL–CIO created in 1955, and the Change to Win Federation (current Strategic Organizing …

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The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

demanded the acceptance of the /creation of/ free labor unions, independent of the party and employers, which International Labor Organization on the freedom of labor unions, ratified by the ^ PPR, ,the qovernment Commission acknowledged of creating new, self-governing labor unions, genuinely representing the working c l a s Establishing new, independent, se1f-governinq labor unions, the MKS states that they will abide by the International Labor Organization on the freedom of labor unions and the protection of union rights, and No.


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

A file containing documents relating to dissent in the Soviet Union. Subjects covered in the file include analysis of the dissident journal Chronicle of Current Events, which had been disrupted …

economic d i f f i c u l t i e s , the role of free labor unions in a socialist state,.-and the lessons of P


The National Archives · 1 January 1981 English

and associations of trade unions set up by labor unions of employees." This law could create a basis eventually be achieved through "a general law on labor unions" to be adopted in the future. (1) Talks with in an internal publication of the Solidarity labor unions and have subsequently been confirmed by an


The National Archives · 1 January 1981 French

A file containing documents concerning foreign visitors to West Berlin. The principal subject covered in the file is a visit by the American Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, in September …

parties, press associations, free enterprises, or labor unions is essential to the creativity of a free society


The National Archives · 1 January 1980 English

Siberia, for investigation of ^ P permit free labor unions. Instead, it has Gleb Yakunin was convicted


The National Archives · 1971 English

A file containing documents concerning agriculture in Poland. The file includes a Radio Free Europe report entitled "Some problems of the socioeconomic reconstruction of the Polish countryside"; comments on a …

seems to augur a greatly enhanced role for the labor unions in attaining the regime's economic goals. Tentatively liberalization seems in fact to be a new emphasis in labor unions and enterprises upon Ceausescu's now familiar relations, this procedure was adopted in now the labor unions are to come more actively between the Party


The National Archives · 1959 English

A file containing documents relating to a proposed visit to the Soviet Union by a delegation from the Soviet Relations Committee of the British Council (S.R.C.) to discuss cultural, technical, …

delegations, specific city-to-city contacts, labor unions and workers, Chambers of Commerce, and institutional


The National Archives · 1957 English

A file of reports, correspondence, and press extracts on young people in Poland. The file contains a report from the British ambassador to Poland on the contribution of Polish youth …

equally indifferent towards peoples' councils mid labor unions., though the latter invoke a certain interest-just


The National Archives · 1956 French

A file containing documents relating to the Polish October uprising. Documents in the file include a report that the Polish paper Trybuna Ludu had criticised a Pravda article but had …

assured? Can't Marxism be spoken in the of the labor unions and farmers serve the exclusive prerogatives


The National Archives · 1956 English

A file of correspondence and reports on East-West political relations. Subjects covered in the file include a Spectator article on the relationship between Western socialists and the communist blocs of …

helping in the conquering of disease, of our free labor unions showing other peoples how they work, what they


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