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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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TheInternational Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is alabor union in the United States and Canada. Formed in 1903 by the merger of the Team Drivers International Union and the Teamsters National Union, the union now represents a diverse membership ofblue- andwhite-collar workers in both thepublic andprivate sectors, totalling about 1.3 million members in 2015. The union was formerly called the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America. (Full article...)

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February in Labor History

Significant dates in labour history.

February 01 – ThePaterson silk strike of 1913 began in theU.S.; theSan Diego free speech fight began in theU.S. in 1912
February 02 –Shannon J. Wall died
February 03 –George Becker died;José Vitoriano died
February 04 –Bill Haywood was born;John Mitchell was born;Benyoucef Benkhedda died
February 05 –Neil Aggett died;Ludvik Buland died
February 06 – TheSeattle General Strike of 1919 began in theU.S.;Elba Esther Gordillo was born;William Hutcheson was born
February 07 – TheCripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 began in theU.S.; the2006 labour protests in France began;Paul Mattick died
February 08 –Ong Teng Cheong died;Jakob Kaiser was born
February 09 –George Lippard died; theSupreme Court of Canada issued its reasoning inOntario Human Rights Commission v. Etobicoke
February 10 – 11 strikers were killed during theReesor Siding Strike of 1963 inCanada;Peter Smith died; theBuilding and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO was founded; the filmBlue Collar was released
February 11 – TheOxnard strike of 1903 began in theU.S.; theUAW won a first contract atGM, ending theFlint sit-down strike;Nellie Quander was born;Mark Hewitson died;Clyde Cameron was born; theMemphis sanitation strike began
February 12 –John L. Lewis was born
February 13 – TheSons of Vulcan win the first contract in theU.S. iron and steel industry and the first union contract of any kind in American history;Margaretta Scott was born;Dennis McDermott died;John Healey was born
February 14 – TheAsbestos Strike began in1949 inAustralia; theWinter of Discontent ended in theU.K. in 1979;Jimmy Hoffa was born;Michael Sacco was born; theConfederation of State and Municipal Employees of Iceland was founded;Mary Lee was born
February 15 – The1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute began;Baldemar Velasquez was born;Alice Henry died
February 16 – TheGriviţa Strike of 1933 began inRomania in1933;William Quesse died; theNational Hockey League cancelled its season in the middle of the2004-05 NHL lockout;James Orange died;
February 17 –Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. died
February 18 –Peter J. McGuire died;George Campbell was born
February 19 – TheU.S. Supreme Court decidedGarcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority andNLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc.;I. C. Frimu died
February 20 –Chittabrata Majumdar died
February 21 –Patrick J. Campbell died;Phil Hare was born;Felix Aylmer was born
February 22 –Albert Shanker died;David Dubinsky was born; theDemocratic Organization of African Workers' Trade Union was founded;Poncke Princen died
February 23 –Douglas Fraser died;Graduate Employees Together – University of Pennsylvania was formed;John Holman died;Kate Barnard died;Benyoucef Benkhedda was born; theMarine Engineers' Beneficial Association was founded
February 24 – TheGeneral Union of Algerian Workers was founded; theU.S. Supreme Court decidedMuller v. Oregon;John P. Frey was born;Marshall W. Mason was born
February 25 –Edgar Nixon died;Las Aguas Bajan Turbias, anArgentine film about workers forming a trade union, debuted in theU.S.
February 26 –John Holman was born; theSouthern California supermarket strike of 2003–04 ended in theU.S.;Frederick Hayday died
February 27 – TheLabour Party was founded in theU.K. in 1909;Mark Hewitson died; the firstSpanish Trade Union Organisation congress was held; theEuropean Court of Human Rights decidedASLEF v. United Kingdom;Tom Williamson, Baron Williamson died
February 28 – TheUniversity of Miami 2006 custodial workers' strike began in theU.S.;John White was born;Hal C. Banks was born;Lim Chin Siong was born;John La Rose died;Tommy Lewis died;Ted Theodore died;Arthur Hayday died
February 29 –A. L. Lloyd was born

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

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"There is a dawn approaching that is indicating and shouting to us that it's our moment. But we've got to seize that moment and use what we know so well—how to organize and, fundamentally, how to fight!"

— Tony Mazzocchi, speech to the 1998 convention of theUnited Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America

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...thatWilliam Dronfield founded theUnited Kingdom Alliance of Organised Trades, which inspired the creation of theTrades Union Congress?
...that fear of retaliatory terminations is a leading obstacle tounion organizers in their efforts tounionize a workplace?
... thatPresidential Medal of Freedom winner,J. Warren Madden was the firstChair of theU.S.National Labor Relations Board, and said of his service on the Board, "It was all very frustrating"?

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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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