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unusual facts about labor unions



America Coming Together

The group was primarily funded by insurance mogul Peter Lewis, currency trader George Soros, and labor unions, especially the Service Employees International Union, and was led by Steve Rosenthal, a former political director of the AFL-CIO.

Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, 1862-1872

Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, 1862-1872 is a non-fiction book written by historian David Montgomery concerning organized labor during and after the United States Civil War until the Panic of 1873 and the relationships between labor unions and Radical Republicans.

Business nationalism

Ultraconservative business and industrial leaders who saw the New Deal implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936 as proof of an imagined sinister alliance by international finance capital and communist-controlled labor unions to destroy free enterprise became known as “business nationalists”.

Campaign Money Watch

The group takes in funding from labor unions such as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Crashing the Gate

In this book, the authors document what they see as the ineffectiveness of "old-school politics" in the Democratic Party, and advocate for a "new kind of popular political movement" that combines the netroots, grassroots, labor unions and big donors to effect a "broad change in the political landscape" of the United States.

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.


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Anthony Milano

Milano had significant control over several local labor unions in Cleveland due to his connection to Jackie Presser.

Blue-green alliance

The core issue of this alliance is opposition to globalization and to free trade, and it was significant in the candidacy of Ralph Nader in the 2000 Presidential election, as Nader was endorsed by some labor organizations (the overwhelming majority of labor unions and environmental organizations are loyal to the Democratic Party and endorsed Al Gore).

Geoff Garin

He replaced Mark Penn as the Clinton Campaign's chief strategist in April 2008, after the Wall Street Journal revealed that Penn met with Colombian official regarding a proposed free trade agreement opposed by Clinton and most labor unions.

History of education in the United States

the rival American Federation of Teachers (AFT), was based in large cities and formed alliances with the labor unions there.

La Follette Committee

Private security firms like Pinkerton National Detective Agency and Burns were employed to infiltrate labor unions.

Morris Ernst

In 1937, as attorney for the American Newspaper Guild, he persuaded the Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act (the Wagner Act) as applied to the press, establishing the right of media employees to organize labor unions.

No, They Can't

The book gives several examples of government intervention: trade barriers, food and medical regulation, the education system, labor unions, gun control, minimum wage laws, the war on drugs, and advocates of universal health care.

Opposition to immigration

The American Federation of Labor (AFL), a coalition of labor unions formed in the 1880s, vigorously opposed unrestricted immigration from Europe for moral, cultural, and racial reasons.

Popular Liberation Army

Most of the demobilized guerrillas formed Esperanza, Paz y Libertad (Hope, Peace and Liberty), a political party, which claimed to defend the interests of workers and labor unions, especially around the Urabá area in the departments of Antioquia and Córdoba.

Stand By Your Ad provision

The DISCLOSE Act, proposed by Democrats in a response to the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (which held that corporations and labor unions have a constitutional right to spend unlimited sums of money on advocacy ads) would have required the heads of non-campaign organizations funding a political advertisement on-camera (such as "super PACs" or corporations) to follow a "stand by your ad" requirement.

Starman Jones

Labor unions, which had been treated negatively in "The Roads Must Roll", are here subjected to even more severe and categorical criticism, where a significant portion of the plot revolves around Max's attempts to enter the closed guild system of the spacelines' officers and crew.