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Abdelmadjid Sidi Said

Abdelmadjid Sidi Said leader of the Algerian trade union: UGTA.

All India Oriental Bank Officers Association

All India Oriental Bank Officers Association (AIOBOA) is a bank trade union representing the Officers of Oriental Bank of Commerce.

Amalgamated Lithographers of America

The Amalgamated Lithographers of America (ALA) is a labor union formed in 1882 to represent professional lithographers.

American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century

The book is about the October 1, 1910 bombing of The Los Angeles Times building by union members that caused later attacks, but the later ones failed.

Americans for Democratic Action

The UDA was formed by former members of the Socialist Party of America and Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies as well as labor union leaders, liberal politicians, theologians, and others who were opposed to the pacifism adopted by most left-wing political organizations in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Aurora Phelps

Aurora Phelps (1839 – 4 January 1876) was an American land reformer, labor organizer and leader, and women's rights advocate.

Buses in Melbourne

There was also resistance from the unions, and the Chairman of the MMTB, Sir Robert Risson, successfully argued that the cost of ripping up the concrete-embedded tram tracks would be prohibitive.

Campaign for New York's Future

The Campaign for New York's Future is a coalition of civic, business, environmental, labor, community and public health organizations that supports the goals and strategic direction of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s sustainability proposal, PlaNYC 2030.

Christian Democratic Employees' Association

The CDA was created after the Second World War, by mostly Christian trade unionists in the industrial areas of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Citizens UK

It was largely composed of faith groups including churches and mosques, schools, student organisations, union branches and residents' associations.

Confederation of Health Service Employees

The Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE) was a United Kingdom trade union representing workers primarily in the National Health Service.

Delta Dental

Led by Washington Dental Service (WDS), Delta Dental began by providing dental benefit programs for organized labor unions.

Dewsbury by-election, 1902

Their possible candidates included Edward Hartley, Ben Turner from Batley, J A Parr, a Justice of the Peace also from Batley and Peter Francis Curran, a Glasgow-born trade union official from London, who was later Labour MP for Jarrow.

Drayage

Lastly, organized labor was concerned about the bargaining power of the trucking industry, as dray drivers were purported to be "low bid carriers".

Élie Domota

Élie Domota (born in 1963) is a trade union leader from Guadeloupe, spokesman of Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon or LKP (« Movement against exploitation » in creole) and general secretary of the UGTG, the main trade union in Guadeloupe.

Eugene Kinckle Jones

He implemented boycotts against firms that refused to employ blacks, pressured schools to expand vocational opportunities for young people, constantly prodded Washington officials to include blacks in New Deal recovery programs, and a drive to get blacks into previously segregated labor unions.

Gaz de France

This plan for a merger between Gaz de France and Suez came under fire from the whole of the political left, which feared the loss of one of the last ways of preventing the price rises experienced over the previous three years, and by the social Gaullists and trade unions.

Gerd-Liv Valla

She has worked both in the trade unions and as first consultant and office leader at the Research Council of Norway, as well as lector at Eik Teacher Academy in Tønsberg.

Gibraltar Confederation of Labour

The Gibraltar Confederation of Labour was a trade union established in the British colony of Gibraltar in 1947, and promoted by the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights (AACR).

Green syndicalism

Its methods are a fusion of the trade union, more robust methods from formal syndicalism, and the direct action and workplace democracy movements (some members of the Environmental Unionist Caucus of the IWW identify as green syndicalists).

Gurindji Strike

There were demonstrations and arrests in southern Australia in support of the walk-off, and many church, student and trade union groups gave practical and fundraising support to the Gurindji struggle.

Heinz Kluncker

Heinz Kluncker (February 20, 1925 – April 21, 2005) was president of the German trade union ÖTV (Öffentliche Dienste, Transport und Verkehr Public service, transport and traffic) from 1964 to 1982.

Indo Japan Air Services Staff Union

Indo Japan Air Services Staff Union (IJASSU) is a registered staff union of Indo Japan Air Services Private Limited (a 100% subsidiary of Japan Airlines Company Limited) under the Indian Trade Unions Act 1926 having registration no.

Isaac René Guy le Chapelier

Le Chapelier introduced a motion in the National Assembly which prohibited guilds, trade unions, and compagnonnage (as well as the right to strike).

Jacob Hahn

He came to Milwaukee in 1883, attended the public schools, learned the craft of cigarmaking, and had been a trade union member of the Cigar Maker's Union for the past thirteen years when elected.

John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University

In 1972, there was a change in leadership of the institution in the person of the Capt. Lacson’s youngest daughter, Mary Lou Lacson,who was welcomed and accepted even by union members.

John Cornelius Butler

He served as an official in various unions and was elected to the House after the death of Representative Pius L. Schwert created a vacancy.

Judith Levine

Judith Levine (born 1952) is an American author, journalist, civil libertarian and co-founder of the National Writers Union, a trade union of contract and freelance writers, and No More Nice Girls, a group dedicated to promoting abortion rights through street theater.

Julio Carreras

During this period the Argentine government was undertaking the systematic massacre of guerrillas, unionists, university leaders, and political militants known as the Dirty War.

King Kolax

Kolax had a position in the Chicago Federation of Musicians, and union rules prevented him from being able to gig and hold office at the same time.

Klaus Ernst

In 1972 he became a member of the German Metalworkers' Union and in 1974 he took the chair of regional trade unions youth organization in Munich (until 1979) and became a partymember of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

Landsorganisationen

Landsorganisationen translates into English as "the national organisation" and is a term used for the blue-collar trade union confederations in Scandinavia.

Luisa Capetillo

In 1904, Capetillo began to write essays, titled "Mi Opinión" (My Opinion), about her ideas, which were published in radical and union newspapers.

Merthyr Tydfil by-election, 1915

Merthyr Tydfil was a miners’ seat, and power within the local Labour Party lay within the locally dominant trade union, the South Wales Miners' Federation.

Miguel García Vivancos

Resenting the violence with which trade unions were met by employers, he formed the anarchist group Los Solidarios, together with Buenaventura Durruti, Francisco Ascaso, Juan García Oliver, Gregorio Jover, Ramona Berri, Eusebio Brau, Manuel Campos, and Aurelio Fernández.

Népszava

During the period of Communist Hungary between 1948 and 1989, it was the official newspaper of Hungarian trade unions.

NHS Together

NHS Together is a campaign alliance of the health service unions in the United Kingdom and staff associations working with the TUC, which opposes any form of commercial competition with or within the National Health Service.

NTF football awards

The clubs union Norsk Toppfotball, TV 2 and the coaches union Trenerforeningen chooses the winner i both categories.

People's History Museum

-- From the 1960s ??? -->The Trade Union, Labour and Co-operative History Society operated a collection at Limehouse Town Hall between 1975 and 1986, with the bulk of the collections in storage.

Professional Flight Attendants Association

The Professional Flight Attendants Association (PFAA) was an independent union which represented the approximately 10,000 flight attendants employed by Northwest Airlines in North America.

Raffique Shah

In the midst of Black Power riots, the People's National Movement government led by Eric Williams proclaimed a State of Emergency April, 1970 and arrested several Black Power leaders and Trade Unionists.

Rand School of Social Science

The Rand School maintained a close relationship not only with the Socialist Party of America proper, but also with the Intercollegiate Socialist Society and such trade unions as the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

Sonny Clay

The group played in Sydney and Melbourne to great success, but problems with unions and with venue changes (their initial bookings were on vaudeville stages, but additional dates in dance halls led them into race-related trouble with local authorities) resulted in their gaining some notoriety.

Syndicat des Cols Bleus de la Ville de Laval

The Syndicat des Cols Bleus de la Ville de Laval is a trade union representing blue-collar workers in Laval, Quebec, Canada.

Trinidad and Tobago Airline Pilots Association

The Trinidad and Tobago Airline Pilots Association is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago with members in the former BWIA and Tobago Express, now Caribbean Airlines.

Twelve Colonies

Trade unions appear to play an important role in the lives of the working class in the refugee fleet and the settlers of New Caprica, and a strike was organized on the fleet's only tylium ship by the trade union.

Unified Trade Union Sub Federation of Peasant Workers of Ancoraimes – Tupak Katari

Unified Trade Union Sub Federation of Peasant Workers of Ancoraimes - Túpak Katari (in Spanish: Sub Federación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Ancoraimes Túpak Katari) is a trade union in Ancoraimes, La Paz Department, Bolivia.

United Fire Fighters of Winnipeg

The United Fire Fighters of Winnipeg - Local 867 is a union in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

William Edwin Harvey

For his trade union activity, he was dismissed from the local pit, but managed to find work at Sheepbridge, then later at Morton.

Wolfgang Zimmermann

Wolfgang Zimmermann (born 14 December 1949, Leichlingen, Germany) is a German politician and trade unionist.


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