- المجال: Government; Labor
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Adolph Strasser, president of the Cigar Makers Union and one of the founders of the AFL, once told a Congressional Committee: We have no ultimate ends. We are going from day to day. We fight only for immediate objectives objectives that will be realized in a few years -we are all practical men.
Industry:Labor
A nonprofit store that is collectively owned and operated for the benefit of both the seller and the shopper.
Industry:Labor
Workers signed a contract in Colonial times making them indentured servants for the life of the agreement. The system was later used to import Orientals into California and Hawaii and Italians and Greeks for work on the East Coast. It was bitterly fought by organized labor for the contract worker meant low wage competition.
Industry:Labor
Clauses in union contracts or in some state laws applicable to public employees stating that management must consult the union before making any major personnel changes.
Industry:Labor
A city or county federation of local unions which are affiliated with different national or international unions.
Industry:Labor
Self correcting feedback and computer electronics. Also, dramatic technological innovation of any sort at the workplace. Often regarded by unions as a cause of unemployment, job alienation, and dislocation.
Industry:Labor
The term originated in 1880 when an Irish landowner, Captain Charles Boycott, was denied all services. Today the expression means collective pressure on employers by refusal to buy their goods or services.
Industry:Labor
A specified group of employees empowered to bargain collectively with their employer.
Industry:Labor
A post World War I employer movement which stressed freedom of industry to manage its business without union interference.
Industry:Labor
