trade union movement


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Synonyms for trade union movement

an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement

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For a trade union movement which has accepted the limits of the system, there are no other realistic alternatives.
In reading the book, one almost gets the feeling that Patrick Lenihan was the key figure in all of the struggles and battles that took place and by extension was the person who was responsible for the building and the advancement of the trade union movement. While he had a very major role, one of the glaring flaws in the book may be not what the book contains, but rather what it leaves out.
Therefore, the law deprived more groups from the right to organize.(43) Practically speaking, the regime ended the right to organize and stifled Sudan's once vivid and defiant trade union movement. These measures contravene some fundamental International Labor Office agreements, such as agreements No.
This limits discussion about the loss of an independent trade union movement in the Nazi era before and during World War II.
With this Government's relentless attack on disabled people, and the pockets of the rich being lined by the privatisation of our health services, we need a strong Labour Government with the full support and involvement of the trade union movement like we've never needed it before.
Gill Hale, Unison regional secretary for the northern region said: "I have known Margaret for many years and she was recently awarded lifetime membership of the union in recognition of her length of service, tireless dedication to the trade union movement, Unison members and her campaigning on behalf of the NHS.
THE manufacturing sector will play a role in driving prosperity levels in the Welsh economy, First Minister Carwyn Jones will tell the trade union movement today.
The Labour Party was established on the back of the trade union movement. Meanwhile the Tories remain a party dominated by big business money men.
The trade union movement states in a press release that the text adopted fails to extend to the entire subcontracting chain the obligation for the employer to pay sanctions.
YOUR fine tributes to the late Terry Fields remind me as to why I got involved within the wider Labour and Trade Union movement over 20 years ago.
She said her trip to Fiji earlier this year made her realise how important the success of the Fair Pay Campaign was to the international trade union movement.
A FOUNDING father of the trade union movement will be remembered at a Warwickshire festival.
They then pulled in key Brazilian NGOs and social movements, including IBASE, ABONG, the CUT (Brazilian trade union movement) and the MST (the Brazilian peasant farmer movement) to form an organizing committee that hosted the first WSF gathering in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2001.
'It is important to keep us in the trade union movement together with the Government and work towards a third term.'
Cathy, who was yesterday involved in an anti-nuclear demonstration in Glasgow, said: "I see the role of deputy leader as being vital in helping to open channels of communication within the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Group and between the Executive, our MSPs and the wider Labour and Trade Union Movement."
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