Nonreferral unions and equal employment opportunity : a report /

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The trade unions membership dynamics and union members’ trajectories

This text presents an analysis of aggregated membership’s dynamics for Spanish trade unions, using ECVT data, as well as union memberships’ trajectories, or members’ decisions about joining the organization, permanency and responsibilities, and subsequent attrition. For the analysis of trajectories we make use of information of the records of actual memberships and the record of quitting of CCOO, and of a survey-questionnaire to a sample of leavers of the same union. This study allows us to confirm a linkage between the decision and motivations to become union member, to participate in union activities, the time of permanency, and the motives to quit the organization. We also identify five types of union members’ trajectories, indicating that, far from views that assert a monolithic structure, unions are complex organizations.

Multilevel model of trade union membership

Presents a new theory of why people join or leave trade unions. Shows that a major influence on this decision is the quality of social relationships in the workplace. In particular, workplaces with a workforce of diverse occupational groups are not conducive to trade unionism.

Tuberculosis : don't give consumption to others : don't let others give it to you : don't delay! join a labor union and help stamp out consumption : movement inaugurated and plan adopted by the American Federation of Labor to war on consumption.

Includes Paul Kennaday on tuberculosis : address before Pittsburg, Pa., A.F. of L. Convention, November, 1905 (5-7 p.).

Social facts and forces: the factory, the labor union, the corporation, the railway, the city, the church,

Lectures give in 1895-96 in Steinway Hall, Chicago, as the "Ryder lectures" and repeated the next year as the E.A. Rand course on applied Christianity, before the students of Iowa College and the citizens of Grinnell, Iowa.

Labor union political expenditures.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report : Conference on "Central Labor Union Activities", November 29-30, 1949 /

Cover title.

Margaret Dreier Robins : her life, letters, and work /

Includes indexes.

History of the National Alliance of Postal Employees, 1913-1955.

Written by A.L. Glenn.

Women, unions and equal employment opportunity /

"Prepared under grants from the National Commission on Employment Policy and the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration."

Kansallisen konsensuskulttuurin jäljillä : Globalisaatioajan Suomi Helsingin Sanomissa

The dissertation analyzes Finnish consensual culture in public discussion and journalism in Helsingin Sanomat (HS). The consensual Finnish political culture has evolved and persisted over a long period of time and it has been affected by historical circumstances as well as the dynamics of political and journalistic structures and actors. A historical chronology is drawn in the study regarding the nature and development of consensus culture in 20th century Finland. This political culture is traced by looking at public discussion on globalization at the turn of the millennium. Globalization as a concept has been contested and various societal actors have given different meanings to it. This research looks at how the globalization discussion in HS during the years 1992-2004 constructs consensus. Helsingin Sanomat (and its predecessor Päivälehti) has been an important actor in Finnish journalism and the public sphere almost since its founding 120 years ago. The history of the paper is tightly connected to Finland s general political history and history of the public sphere. Moreover, the paper s connections to the societal elite have always been close. The central question in this research was to see how the globalization discussion in HS evolved in relation to consensus as well as legitimate controversies. As a result it is stated that the globalization question has clearly divided the Finnish societal actors. The most powerful societal elites (government, most civil servants, corporate sector) had a profile of being pro globalization. They communicated their globalization strategy as a national, unified way of thinking. Other elites which have been losing their influence (the president, labor union, part of members of parliament), as well as civil society actors tried to bring forward conflicting views in relation to globalization. The paper did give some room to these elements, but on the other hand it also tried to keep up the consensual discussion culture especially in the editorial section. In line with its traditions Helsingin Sanomat strived to create national unity. At the same time it did not give adequate attention to the changes brought about by globalization to the positions and roles of various elites and civil society actors. In this discussion HS seemed more like a medium of the state than as a critical and independent actor. Journalism has an important role in upholding and also reviving the Finnish political culture and public discussion. From this point of view it is problematic if the area of so called legitimate controversy in broad societal questions like globalization becomes very limited. As the Finnish elites are small and there is no considerable competition between them, journalism should actively bring up controversial issues. This task becomes complicated, however, if the elite circles are closed up and no initiatives come from their ranks. Political decision making as well as democracy can suffer, if issues are not brought to the public agenda.

L’engagement militant des jeunes dans le contexte du syndicalisme contemporain

La jeune génération de salariés est souvent accusée d’être moins militante, moins solidaire que les générations précédentes. L’objectif général de cette recherche est de démystifier les préjugés entourant l’engagement militant chez les jeunes syndiqués québécois d’aujourd’hui. Pour ce faire, divers concepts sont présentés, comme celui de jeunesse, de génération et d’engagement militant. Une synthèse de l’évolution historique de l’engagement militant ainsi que la situation particulière de la jeunesse contemporaine dans l’action syndicale permettent de dresser un portrait général. Notre cadre théorique repose sur les concepts d’individualisme et de conflit. L’approche qualitative et l’entrevue semi-dirigée ont été privilégiées. Le résultat de notre enquête menée auprès de dix-sept facteurs et factrices du Syndicat des travailleurs et travailleuses des postes nous révèle que l’engagement militant des jeunes est à la fois le reflet d’une distanciation et une manière différente de concevoir l’engagement militant. Les jeunes syndiqués ne sont pas plus individualistes que les autres générations, mais ils connaissent peu le syndicalisme. D’une part, les jeunes adoptent une position de recul afin de mieux s’approprier la chose syndicale. Il est possible d’affirmer que l’engagement militant n’est pas un phénomène statique, il évolue en acquérant l’expérience. D’autre part, faiblement socialisés au syndicalisme et fortement socialisés au droit, au dialogue et au respect, les jeunes syndiqués appréhendent les conduites violentes et les discours martiaux. Ces derniers ont une vision modérée sans être pour autant passive, car ils valorisent l’action collective et ont plus de facilités à déposer des griefs.