Trade union
Organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment".
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Benefit society
Society, an organization or a voluntary association formed to provide mutual aid, benefit, for instance insurance for relief from sundry difficulties.
Society, an organization or a voluntary association formed to provide mutual aid, benefit, for instance insurance for relief from sundry difficulties.
Examples of benefit societies include trade unions, burial societies, friendly societies, cooperatives, credit unions, self-help groups, landsmanshaftn, immigrant hometown societies, fraternal organizations built upon the models of fraternal orders such as the Freemasons and the Oddfellows, some coworking communities, and many others.
Labour law
Labour laws (also known as labor laws or employment laws) are those that mediate the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade unions, and the government.
Employment
Relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services.
Relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services.
Employees can organize into trade or labor unions, which represent the workforce to collectively bargain with the management of organizations about working, and contractual conditions and services.
Craft unionism
Craft unionism refers to a model of trade unionism in which workers are organised based on the particular craft or trade in which they work.
Employment contract
Kind of contract used in labour law to attribute rights and responsibilities between parties to a bargain.
Kind of contract used in labour law to attribute rights and responsibilities between parties to a bargain.
This could be the right to a minimum wage, holiday pay, sick leave, fair dismissal, a written statement of the contract, the right to organise in a union, and so on.
Industrial unionism
Industrial unionism is a trade union organizing method through which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union—regardless of skill or trade—thus giving workers in one industry, or in all industries, more leverage in bargaining and in strike situations.
Fraternity
Organization, society, club or fraternal order traditionally of men associated together for various religious or secular aims.
Organization, society, club or fraternal order traditionally of men associated together for various religious or secular aims.
The development of fraternities in England can be traced from guilds that emerged as the forerunners of trade unions and friendly societies.
General union
A general union is a trade union (called labor union in American English) which represents workers from all industries and companies, rather than just one organisation or a particular sector, as in a craft union or industrial union.
Apprenticeship
System for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study .
System for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study .
Although the formal boundaries and terminology of the apprentice/journeyman/master system often do not extend outside guilds and trade unions, the concept of on-the-job training leading to competence over a period of years is found in any field of skilled labor.
General strike
A general strike has two meanings that we can clarify with two separate names:
A general strike has two meanings that we can clarify with two separate names:
A General Strike or Solidarity Strike was when various trade unions would go on strike sympathetically to help another trade union.