- 업종: Government; Labor
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Negotiated gains other than wages such as vacations, holidays, pensions, insurance and supplemental unemployment benefits.
Industry:Labor
President Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order dubbed by unions "the gag order" which forbade federal employees on pain of dismissal to seek legislation on their behalf except through their own department.
Industry:Labor
A person brought in from the outside to break strikes and union organizing attempts.
Industry:Labor
Passed in 1938, this law set minimum wages and overtime rates and prohibited child labor for industry connected with interstate commerce.
Industry:Labor
The factory system which employed men, women, and children and made no special provisions for their housing.
Industry:Labor
The worker is paid a fixed amount for the day rather than being paid a salary or being paid for the individual piece produced.
Industry:Labor
Unequal treatment of workers because of race, sex, religion, nationality, or union membership.
Industry:Labor
The AFL expelled most CIO unions in 1937 for dual unionism because industrial unions were encroaching on the jurisdiction of craft unions within factories.
Industry:Labor
Passed in 1946 by a Congress which intended to establish machinery to maintain full employment. A Council of Economic Advisers was created to survey the status of the American economy and to advise the President. The Act, however, failed to solve the unemployment problem.
Industry:Labor
A clause in the union contract which provides for a cost of living increase in wages by relating wages to changes in consumer prices. Usually the Consumer Price Index is used as the measure of price changes.
Industry:Labor
