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Introduction

Image created byWalter Crane to celebrateInternational Workers' Day (May Day, 1 May), 1889. The image depicts workers from the five populated continents (Africa, Asia, Americas, Australia and Europe) in unity underneath an angel representing freedom, fraternity and equality.

Thelabour movement is the collective organisation ofworking people to further their shared political and economic interests. It consists of thetrade union orlabour union movement, as well as political parties of labour. It can be considered an instance ofclass conflict.

Intrade unions, workers campaign for higher wages, better working conditions and fair treatment from their employers, and through the implementation oflabour laws, from their governments. They do this throughcollective bargaining,sectoral bargaining, and when needed,strike action. In some countries,co-determination gives representatives of workers seats on the board of directors of their employers.

Political parties representing the interests of workers campaign forlabour rights,social security and thewelfare state. They are usually called alabour party (in English-speaking countries), asocial democratic party (inGermanic andSlavic countries), asocialist party (inRomance countries), or sometimes aworkers' party.
Though historically less prominent, thecooperative movement campaigns to replacecapitalist ownership of the economy withworker cooperatives,consumer cooperatives, and other types ofcooperative ownership. This is related to the concept ofeconomic democracy.

The labour movement developed as a response tocapitalism and theIndustrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, at about the same time associalism. The early goals of the movement were theright to unionise, theright to vote,democracy, safe working conditions and the40-hour week. As these were achieved in many of the advanced economies of Western Europe and North America in the early decades of the 20th century, the labour movement expanded to issues of welfare and social insurance,wealth distribution andincome distribution,public services likehealth care and education,social housing and in some casescommon ownership. (Full article...)

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TheUnited Auto Workers (UAW), fully namedInternational Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, is anAmerican labor union that represents workers in the United States (includingPuerto Rico) andsouthern Ontario, Canada. It was founded as part of theCongress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s and grew rapidly from 1936 to the 1950s. Theunion played a major role in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party under the leadership ofWalter Reuther (president 1946–1970). It was known for gaining high wages and pensions forautomotive manufacturing workers, but it was unable to unionize auto plants built by foreign-based car makers in the South after the 1970s, and it went into a steady decline in membership; reasons for this included increasedautomation, decreased use of labor, mismanagement, movements of manufacturing (including reaction toNAFTA), and increasedglobalization. After a successful strike at theBig Three in 2023, the union organized its first foreign plant (VW) in 2024.

UAW members in the 21st century work in industries including autos and auto parts, health care, casino gambling, and higher education. The union is headquartered inDetroit,Michigan. As of February 24, 2022, the UAW has more than 391,000 active members and more than 580,000 retired members in over 600 local unions and holds 1,150 contracts with some 1,600 employers. It holds assets amounting to just over $1 billion. (Full article...)

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November in Labor History

Significant dates in labour history.

November 01 -Malbone Street Wreck occurs on the first day of theBLE strike in1918 in the U.S.; the first congress of theInternational Trade Union Confederation is held; theInternational Harvester strike of 1979–80 began
November 02 -Brian Behan died
November 03 -Nathan Feinsinger died; theU.S. Supreme Court decidedMarquez v. Screen Actors Guild Inc.;Dennis McDermott was born
November 04 -Tomasz Arciszewski was born;James Green was born
November 05 -Eugene V. Debs was born;Nimrod Workman was born;Agustín Tosco died; the2007 Writers Guild of America strike began
November 06 -Lloyd McBride died
November 08 -Ed Boyce was born; the1892 New Orleans general strike began
November 09 -Congress of Industrial Organizations founded in the U.S.;Philip Murray died;Danny Greene was born; theChicago Federation of Labor is founded
November 11 -Centralia massacre occurs in the U.S.
November 12 -Bituminous coal strike of 1974 begins in the U.S.; theDemocratic Confederation of San Marino Workers is formed
November 13 - TheUK firefighter dispute 2002–03 begins;Karen Silkwood died; theInternational Typographical Union begins publishing theGreen Bay News-Chronicle during a strike
November 14 - TheHigh Court of Australia issues its ruling inNew South Wales v Commonwealth, upholding the validity ofWorkChoices;Daniel J. Tobin died; the2007 German national rail strike began
November 15 -Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions founded in the U.S.;Raymond McKay was born
November 16 -Jean Maitron died; theJamaica Association of Local Government Officers is founded;Georges Marchais died
November 17 -Harold J. Gibbons died
November 18 -Chris Watson died
November 19 -William J. McCarthy died;Joe Hill is executed; theNational Writers Union is formed
November 20 -Giles Hart was born;Richard Cordtz died
November 21 -William Green died; theColumbine Mine massacre occurred in1927 in the U.S.
November 22 -David McDonald was born;Philip Murray is elected president of theCIO
November 23 -Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. died
November 24 -Charles Millard died
November 25 -George Mock died; the2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute begins in New Zealand;Ted Saskin becomes executive director of theNHLPA in 2005
November 26 - TheNational Confederation of the Trade-Union Organizations of Ukraine is formed;Nimrod Workman died;Eliot V. Elliott died
November 27 -Donald Richberg died
November 28 - TheU.S. Supreme Court decidesEastern Associated Coal Corp. v. United Mine Workers of America;André Morell died;William McFetridge was born
November 29 -John P. Frey died
November 30 -Mary Harris "Mother" Jones died; theGeneral Federation of Trade Unions of Korea is formed

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Image 1Registered nurses on strike in 2006 outsideRobert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
Image 2Picket signs at the2007 Writers Guild of America strike.
Image 3Cripple Creek, Colo., under martial law, during the1894 strike.
Image 4A. Philip Randolph.
Image 5American Federation of Teachers (AFT) presidentAlbert Shanker.
Image 6Shields used bystriking workers at the Carnegie Steel Works during theHomestead Strike in 1892.
Image 7Strike sign used by theGerman Train Drivers' Union in theGerman national rail strike of 2007.
Image 8Armed vigilantesdeport striking copper miners during theBisbee Deportation in Bisbee, Arizona, July 12, 1917.
Image 9Samuel Gompers.
Image 10May Day Rally inMumbai,India, 2004.
Image 11United Mine Workers of America poster circa 1902.
Image 12AFL–CIO unions protest outsideVerizon headquarters inPhiladelphia using a giant inflatable rat.
Image 13National Federation of Federal Employees officials sign a collective bargaining agreement with the U.S. 8th Army in October 2002.
Image 14DuringWorld War II, a female aircraft worker checks electrical assemblies at theVega Aircraft Corporation inBurbank, California.
Image 15Union members march inArgentina onHuman Rights Day in December 2005. The signs read "Worker rights are human rights..
Image 16John L. Lewis (right, President of theUnited Mine Workers, confers withThomas Kennedy (left), UMW Secretary-Treasurer of the UMW, and a UMW official at theWar Labor Board in 1943 about a coal miners' strike.
Image 17Crowd gathered outside old City Hall during theWinnipeg general strike, June 21, 1919.
Image 18Knights of Labor Grand Master WorkmanTerence V. Powderly.
Image 19Australian industrial relations legislation national day of protest, 2005.
Image 20BigBill Haywood, a founding member and leader of theIndustrial Workers of the World.
Image 21Striking I.W.W. members confrontMassachusetts National Guard troops inBoston, during theLawrence textile strike in 1912.
Image 22William Green, president of theAFL–CIO from 1924 to 1952.
Image 23Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.
Image 24Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
Image 25Members of theUnited Steelworkers inOhio phone bank other union members to educate them about critical issues in the 2008 election in the U.S.
Image 26ThePlace de la Sorbonne inParis is closed by police during the2006 labour protests in France.
Image 27Political cartoon about theCoal Strike of 1902 from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Image 28J. Warren Madden, the firstChair of theNational Labor Relations Board.
Image 29Former headquarters of theUnited Mine Workers of America and theCongress of Industrial Organizations, 900 15th Street NW, Washington, D.C., in 200.
Image 30Striking teamsters armed with pipes battle police in the streets during theMinneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934.
Image 31Union memberspicketing recentNLRB rulings outside the agency'sWashington, D.C., headquarters in November 2007.
Image 32Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York) notice of subway closure during the2005 New York City transit strike.
Image 33Detail of monument to theReesor Siding Strike of 1963.
Image 34TheLudlow massacre monument located inLudlow, Colorado,United States.
Image 35Striking American Railway Union members confrontIllinois National Guard troops inChicago, Illinois, during thePullman Strike in 1894.
Image 36Illustration from the BrisbaneWorker newspaper condemning the brutality of theQueensland Police onBlack Friday during the1912 Brisbane General Strike.
Image 37The front page of theUnion Record on theSeattle General Strike of 1919.
Image 38Wilma B. Liebman, chair,NLRB.
Image 39TheWestern Federation of Miners' famous flyer entitled "Is Colorado in America?".
Image 40Strike leaders at thePaterson silk strike of 1913. From left,Patrick Quinlan,Carlo Tresca,Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,Adolph Lessig, andBill Haywood.
Image 41Richard Trumka.
Image 42Barges set ablaze by steelworkers during theHomestead strike in1892.
Image 43Rally inDhaka, organized by Jatiyo Nari Shramik Trade Union Kendra (National Women Workers Trade Union Centre), an organization affiliated with the Bangladesh Trade Union Kendra.
Image 44Exaggerated 19th century engraving showing flames and smoke following theHaymarket riot.
Image 45Union elections with an illegal firing, 1951 to 2007.
Image 46Mounted police chase demonstrators throughVancouver's East End during theBattle of Ballantyne Pier in1935.
Image 47Striking workers march moments before theSwedish military opened fire, killing five workers during theÅdalen shootings.
Image 48Lewis Hine's1920 image "Power house mechanic working on steam pump," which shows a working class young American man with wrench in hand, hunched over, surrounded by the machinery that defines his work.
Image 49Camp put up by strikingPepsi-Cola workers, inGuatemala City,Guatemala, 2008.
Image 50Public and Commercial Services Union members on strike inManchester 2006.
Image 51Breaker boys, child laborers, working in a U.S. coal mine in 1911.
Image 52EmptyGare du Nord train station during theNovember 2007 strikes in France.
Image 53George Meany, former leader of theAFL–CIO.
Image 54Protesters barricade the street on June 22 during the2006 Oaxaca protests.
Image 55AnAFL–CIO protest ofRite Aid, with Rev. Mark Reisinger (Pastor of Grace United Methodist Church inMechanicsburg, Pennsylvania),Bill George, andRichard Bloomingdale.
Image 56Samuel Gompers, President of theAmerican Federation of Labor, and his wife, circa 1908.
Image 57Joe Hill.
Image 58Memorial marker for theBay View Tragedy.

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If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of the labor movement."

— Astrid Lindgren, author,Pippi Longstocking

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Organized labor

Formation

Structure	Labor council Union organizer National trade union center Global union federation Union representative Clerk of the Chapel Father of the Chapel Local union Union dues Vigilance committee Union label Salt Trades hall Duty of fair representation
Models	Organizing model Service model Social movement unionism Community unionism Members-only unionism One Big Union Open-source unionism Business unionism Dual unionism Solidarity unionism Syndicalism
Types	Company union Independent union General union Craft unionism Industrial unionism

Industrial
relations

Shops and hiring	Closed shop Open shop Agency shop Union shop Hiring hall Bump Scope clause
Actions	Unfair list Strike action recognition secondary action Strike notice Occupation of factories Precarious work Precarity General strike Sitdown strike Slowdown Bossnapping Stay-away Labor unrest Grievance Organizational dissent Overtime ban Industrial action Walkout Contingent work Whipsaw strike Wildcat strike action Work-to-rule Green ban Picketing
Bargaining	Bargaining unit Collective bargaining Collaborative bargaining Enterprise bargaining agreement Global framework agreement Master contract Mutual gains bargaining Pattern bargaining Union security agreement
Compensation	Strike pay Union wage premium Workers' compensation

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