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unusual facts about labor relations


Adélard Godbout

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Ergonomics in Canada

Ergonomics has been taught as a university subject for many years, but in a variety of departments ranging from kinesiology, psychology and biological sciences to industrial relations, industrial engineering, systems engineering and other engineering disciplines.

Minkailu Mansaray

Minkailu Mansaray is a Sierra Leonean politician and the country's Minister of Labour, Employment and Social security.

Morris Kleiner

Kleiner has published extensively in the top academic journals in labor economics and industrial relations, and is the author, co-author, or co-editor of seven books.

Pipe Line Contractors Association

The Pipe Line Contractors Association (PICA) is a petroleum industry trade group created in 1948 to handle labor relations in the pipeline construction industry.

Van Arsdale France

Prior to working for Disney, his skills in labor relations landed France a job as director of education for the Fort Worth Division of General Dynamics.


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Angel Peña Ramírez

Peña has a Bachelor's degree in Labor Relations from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, and a Master's degree in the same major from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, Metropolitan Campus.

Bob Hasegawa

After earlier studying physics at the University of Washington, Hasewaga graduated from Antioch University Seattle with areas of concentration in Labor Relations and Organizational and Social Change.

California Agricultural Labor Relations Act

The American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation's largest association of farmers and a representative of many California growers, proposed amending the federal National Labor Relations Act to permit agricultural workers to organize.

David J. Saposs

The AFL allied with anti-union Democratic Representative Howard W. Smith to attack the National Labor Relations Board.

Hawaiian Mission Academy

HMA’s alumni include Mary Kawena Pukui, Labor Relations Board Judge David Pendleton, former governor John Waihe’e, and his wife Lynne Waihe’e, who serves as Chair of the Hawaiian Mission Academy Board of Trustees.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

O'Keefe was born in Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey, the daughter of Noreen, a homemaker, and Jack O'Keefe, a director of labor relations for Merck.

John Flood

John J. Flood Retired police officer and labor relations organizer

José Bové

In February 2006, Bové was stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at New York's JFK Airport as he arrived en route to Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations for events sponsored by Cornell's Global Labor Institute.

Labor and Employment Relations Association

It originally consisted of about 100 researchers (economists; management, human resources, and labor relations researchers; attorneys, historians and sociologists) from 30 universities, including California-Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Illinois, Massachusetts (several campuses), MIT, Michigan, Michigan State, Northeastern, Rutgers, Stanford and UCLA, as well as universities in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Maurice F. Neufeld

In 1945, he was one of the two founding faculty members of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, appointed by its founding dean, Irving Ives.

National Labor Relations Board v. Sands Manufacturing Co.

Gross, James A. The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: National Labor Policy in Transition, 1937-1947. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1981.

Patrick Crowley

A graduate of the Labor Relations and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Crowley is one of many who entered the Labor Movement during the mid-1990s when the AFL-CIO President John Sweeney issued a call to arms for a new generation of Union organizers to re-energize the American labor movement.

Social chauvinism

The consequence of this policy on labor relations within the combatant countries was something called Burgfriedenspolitik in Germany, a term deriving from the medieval concept of "peace (especially between feuding families) within a besieged city".

Van Arsdale France

Upon France’s return to the U.S., he became superintendent of industrial relations for Kaiser Aluminum Corporation's Mead Works and director of labor relations for Kaiser Frazer in Michigan.