LABOR UNIONS

  

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LABOR UNIONS

"LABOR UNIONS" is a plural of: labor union.


Specialty Definition: LABOR UNIONS

DomainDefinition

Health

Organizations comprising wage and salary workers in health-related fields for the purpose of improving their status and conditions. The concept includes labor union activities toward providing health services to members. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: LABOR UNIONS

Synonyms: Labor organizations, Organized labor, Trade unions, Unions, Unions, Labor. (additional references)

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Crosswords: LABOR UNIONS

English words defined with "LABOR UNIONS": AFL, AFL-CIO, American Federation of Labor, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizationslabor, labor movementsyndicalismtrade union movement, trade unioniamunionisation, unionism, unionization. (references)
Specialty definitions using "LABOR UNIONS": blood-bank-booking clerkCALENDAR-CONTROL CLERK, BLOOD BANK, Customer Liaison Officelabor banksMANAGER, BENEFITS, MANAGER, COMPENSATION, manager, employee benefits, manager, employee services, manager, personnel servicespersonnel administratorwage and salary administrator. (references)

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Commercial Usage: LABOR UNIONS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Labor Unions and the Career Mobility of American Workers (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor) (reference)

  • The Enemy Within: The McClellan Committee's Crusade Against Jimmy Hoffa and Corrupt Labor Unions (reference)

  • Transnational Cooperation Among Labor Unions (Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports, No 36) (reference)

  • New Jersey Labor Union 2001: New Jersey Business Source Book (New Jersey Business Source Book. Vol 2: New Jersey Labor Unions) (reference)

  • Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America (reference)

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Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: LABOR UNIONS

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Since the signing of this convention, a group of Chinese activists has started a campaign to promote independent labor unions. (references)

In addition, pressure from the government, trade bodies, insurance companies, labor unions and operators has raised the profile of security. (references)

As mentioned earlier, both of Korea's leading labor unions have called upon the government to scrap its reform plans, "claiming that overseas sales would not only deepen the national economy's dependency on outside economies, but also raise power rates at home." In another statement released by a unified energy-related labor union, one representative announced that "the reorganization of the power industry that the government is promoting now amounts to giving up the sovereignty of the nation's security and energy sources. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mauritania

The number of political parties and labor unions remained the same. (references)

Burkina Faso

Political parties and labor unions usually were permitted to organize without seeking government permission. (references)

Maldives

While the Government also does not prohibit labor unions, it recognizes neither the right to form them nor the right to strike. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

The Confederation of Catholic Labor Unions (CSC/ACV). (references)

Armenia

However, the number and influence of labor unions is minimal. (references)

Sri Lanka

In general, labor unions are quite activist, and strikes are not uncommon. (references)

Human Rights

Swaziland

There were occurrences of physical surveillance by the police on members of labor unions and banned political groups. (references)

Honduras

The new law provides for a participatory process in which 5 representatives of civil society (one representative each from labor unions, employer associations, civil society, the bar association, and the human rights ombudsman) are to choose nominees for the Supreme Court, from which Congress selects 15 Supreme Court justices and names the president of the court for 7-year terms. (references)

Political Economy

BELGIUM

About 63 percent of Belgian workers are members of labor unions. (references)

Political Rights

Swaziland

During the constitutional review process, human rights organizations, church groups, labor unions, and other NGO's conducted their own active programs of constitutional and human rights civic education. (references)

Monaco

Ten members are chosen directly by the Minister; 10 members are chosen by the Minister from a list of 20 persons who are proposed by the Confederation of Labor Unions; and 10 members are selected by the Minister from a list of 20 names proposed by the Council of Business. (references)

Women

Italy

Many NGO's, most of which are affiliated with labor unions or political parties, actively and effectively promote women's rights. (references)

Worker Rights

Korea

Nongovernmental labor unions do not exist. (references)

New Zealand

A few small, independent labor unions also exist. (references)

Grenada

All workers are free to organize independent labor unions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: LABOR UNIONS

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Robert Novak

Congressman, the homeland security bill is stalled in the Senate over the issue of government employee labor unions and how much power they should have.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: LABOR UNIONS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-i-l-n-n-o-o-r-s-u"

-2 letters: laborious.

-3 letters: linurons, nonlabor, nonsolar, unisonal.

-4 letters: albinos, bailors, blouson, bunions, burials, insular, labours, linuron, niobous, ooralis, railbus, robalos, ronions, rosinol, slurban, solanin, suboral, unnails, unsnarl, urinals.

-5 letters: ablins, airbus, albino, aloins, anions, annuli, annuls, arioso, arsino, bailor, bairns, barons, basion, blains, bolson, bonsai, borals, borons, bourns, brails, brains, brasil, broils, bruins, bunion, burans.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LABOR UNIONS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 41 42 4F 52      55 4E 49 4F 4E 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01000010 01001111 01010010 00100000 01010101 01001110 01001001 01001111 01001110 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#66 &#79 &#82 &#32 &#85 &#78 &#73 &#79 &#78 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0042 004F 0052      0055 004E 0049 004F 004E 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46353649522554843494853

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Quotations: Spoken
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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