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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
Trade unions organized along lines of their skilled crafts. They formed the base of the American Federation of Labor.
Industry:Labor
Syndicalism comes from the French word for union "syndicat. " Syndicalists believe unions should run the economy. The term is associated with the Industrial Workers of the World. Half the states just after World War I passed criminal syndicalist laws. In California a person could be convicted for having once belonged to the IWW. In New Mexico, an employer could be prosecuted for hiring an "anarchist. "
Industry:Labor
President John F. Kennedy issued this Executive Order which recognized the right of federal employees to bargain with management.
Industry:Labor
The Consumer Price Index prepared by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Index measures changes in the cost of living month by month, year by year.
Industry:Labor
An attempt by an impartial third party to reconcile differences between labor and management.
Industry:Labor
The Philadelphia cordwainers' case in 1806 and subsequent decisions involving labor disputes declared unions to be unlawful conspiracies. In 1842 the court decision in Commonwealth v. Hunt said that under certain circumstances unions were lawful.
Industry:Labor
