Central Labor Councils and the Revival of American Unionism: Organizing for Justice in Our CommunitiesM.E. Sharpe, 2001 - 233 من الصفحات Central Labor Councils are the local arm of the labor movement responsible for coordinating collective activities among different unions in a region. Once quite powerful organizations with important political roles at local and regional levels, CLCs waned significantly during the 1940s and 50s. This work examines the recent re-emergence of Central Labor Councils and how they are being utilized as effective bodies to help rejuvenate the labor movement. It combines comprehensive history of the CLCs in America since the early 19th century and case studies by CLC leaders in Atlanta, Milwaukee, San Jose, and Seattle -- the regions where CLCs have re-emerged as important players in advancing the labor movement. |
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الصفحة 103 - While preserving the independence of the labor movement from political control, to encourage workers to register and vote, to exercise their full rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and to perform their rightful part in the political life of the local, state and national communities.
الصفحة 56 - Federation shall be the encouragement and formation of local Trade and Labor Unions, and the closer federation of such societies through the organization of Central Trade and Labor Unions in every city, and the further combination of such bodies into State, Territorial, or Provincial organizations to secure legislation in the interest of the working masses. SEC. 2. The establishment of National and International Trade Unions, based upon a strict recognition of the autonomy of each trade, and the...
الصفحة 56 - LABOR, and shall consist of such Trade and Labor Unions as shall conform to its rules and regulations. Article II— Objects SECTION 1. The object of this Federation shall be the encouragement and formation of local Trade and Labor Unions, and the closer federation of such societies through the organization of Central Trade and Labor Unions in every city, and the further combination of such bodies into State, Territorial, or Provincial organizations to secure legislation in the interest of the working...
الصفحة 104 - ... a whole. It aims chiefly at more here and now for the organized workers of the craft or industry, in terms mainly of higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions, regardless for the most part of the welfare of the workers outside the particular organic group, and regardless in general of political and social considerations except in so far as these bear directly upon its own economic ends. It is conservative in the sense that it professes...
الصفحة 59 - ... from the unaffiliated city federation it should be expelled from the Federation. The convention, however, merely reiterated its instructions to the executive council.4 It is not difficult to understand the reluctance of the national unions to make the affiliation of their local unions compulsory. If a city federation becomes unsatisfactory to a local union it may withdraw at will, or in case a city federation pursues distasteful policies a national union may even encourage or order its local...
الصفحة 73 - Federations in their vicinity where such exist. Similar instructions shall be given by the American Federation of Labor to all Trade and Federal Labor Unions under its jurisdiction.
الصفحة 57 - ... 2. We declare it the duty of every laboring man to use his utmost endeavors to secure the amelioration of the condition of the laboring classes generally ; and to accomplish this we believe that a central organization should exist, whereby all branches of Labor may prove allies to any particular one that may be oppressed by capital.
الصفحة 57 - Trade and Labor Unions, and as that end can be best attained by a central labor organization through which all branches of labor may prove allies to any particular one that may be oppressed, and all may form a Brotherhood for the defense and protection of the laboring masses ; therefore, be it Resolved, That we, the delegates of the various Trade and Labor Unions here represented, do hereby form the Central Labor Union of . . . , for the purpose of organizing and concentrating the efforts of the...
الصفحة 103 - State and local bodies are to "assist in furthering the appropriate objects and policies" of the AFL-CIO and its affiliates, to act as "a means of exchanging information among affiliated bodies on matters of common interest...
الصفحة 139 - Together?' in JBS Hardman and Maurice F. Neufeld (eds.), The House of Labor: Internal Operations of American Unions (New York: PrenticeHall, 1951), pp.