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    The Swedish Factory Workers' Union (Swedish: Svenska Fabriksarbetareförbundet, Fabriks) was a trade union representing manufacturing workers in Sweden. The...
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    The Swedish Municipal Workers' Union (Swedish: Svenska Kommunalarbetareförbundet), is the largest trade union in Sweden with 570,000 members, as of 2005...
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    in Sweden"), commonly referred to as LO ([ˈɛ̂lːuː] ), is a national trade union centre, an umbrella organisation for fourteen Swedish trade unions that...
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  • Swedish Factory Workers' Union, the plumbers' section of the Swedish Metalworkers' Union and the construction workers' section of the Swedish Road Workers' Union...
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  • The Swedish Stone Workers' Union (Swedish: Svenska Stenindustriarbetareförbundet, Sten) was a trade union representing stonemasons and related workers in...
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  • workers in Sweden. The union was founded in 1914, as the Swedish Road Construction Workers' Union, a split from the Swedish Factory Workers' Union. It immediately...
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  • Swedish Factory Workers' Union and the Swedish Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Union. Like both its predecessors, it affiliated to the Swedish Trade...
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  • Sweden. The union was established on 21 June 1920, at a conference in Gävle. It brought together 6,251 workers, most from the Swedish Factory Workers'...
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    sympathy (solidarity) strikes, which are legal in Sweden. The Swedish Transport Workers' Union (Swedish: Svenska Transportarbetareförbundet) blocked the...
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  • transport industry in Sweden. The union was created in April 1897 in Stockholm, as a split from the Swedish Heavy and Factory Workers' Union. It was organised...
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  • Swedish Shoe and Leather Workers' Union and the Swedish Textile Workers' Union. Like all its predecessors, it affiliated to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation...
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  • leather industry joined the Swedish Shoe and Leather Workers' Union, and a small group joined the Swedish Paper Workers' Union. Kjellberg, Anders (2017)...
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  • Organisations and General Workers' Unions (IFF), and then in 1964 it became the International Federation of Chemical and General Workers' Unions (ICF). At this time...
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  • The Swedish Workers Union (Swedish: Svenska arbetareförbundet, abbreviated SvA) was a labour organization in Sweden active between 1899 and 1919. Josef...
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  • Farm Workers Union of Central Sweden (Swedish: Mellersta Sverges lantarbetareförbund) was a trade union for agricultural workers in Sweden. The organization...
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  • away of the state under the "Factories to the workers!" parole. According to Boris Kanzleiter, the inspiration for workers' councils came from the People's...
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    Elon Musk has commented negatively on trade unions and has clashed with workers at companies he owns including Tesla, SpaceX, and X Corp. (formerly Twitter)...
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    The Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (Swedish: Tjänstemännens Centralorganisation, TCO, literary White-collar workers' Central Organisation)...
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  • union or labour union movement, as well as political parties of labour. It can be considered an instance of class conflict. In trade unions, workers campaign...
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    factories and mines. As striking became a more common practice, governments were often pushed to act (either by private business or by union workers)...
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  • European Union in two controversial decisions. In Laval Ltd v Swedish Builders Union a group of Latvian workers were sent to a construction site in Sweden. The...
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  • Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) is a global union federation of trade unions...
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    366 injured victims. The owner of the factory, Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), was majority-owned by the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) of the United...
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    Alexander Shliapnikov (category Workers' Opposition)
    metalworker, and trade union leader. He is best remembered as a memoirist of the October Revolution of 1917 and as the leader of the Workers' Opposition, one...
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  • World Federation of Trade Unions International Confederation of Labor World Organization of Workers Building and Wood Workers' International Education...
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    because the workers were not covered under the Factory Acts. Such workers received 21⁄4 to 21⁄2 penny (d) per gross of boxes. The workers had to provide...
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  • A workers' council, also called labour council, is a type of council in a workplace or a locality made up of workers or of temporary and instantly revocable...
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  • Czech, Italian, French, Spanish, Swedish, and Japanese workers. The main timeline of foreign workers in the Soviet Union can be divided roughly into two...
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    Migrant workers who work outside their home country are also called foreign workers. They may also be called expatriates or guest workers, especially...
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    United Rubber Workers of America and United Automobile Workers adopted the sitdown strike as a means for demanding unionization of factories, achieving major...
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