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F. Inclusive
industrial union |
1. Organized in 1886 by
Samuel Gompers
as the
AFL- American
Federation of Labor AFL
a. Each trade was autonomous.
b. Union was not political. |
1. The
Congress
of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was organized
in 1936 by John
L. Lewis who broke with AFL because mass
production
workers needed a different type organization. |
| 2. Skilled
workers were organized. |
2. Unskilled workers
were organized. |
3. High skill
requirements naturally limited supply and unions tried to
reinforce limited
supply. |
3. Limited skills
make limiting supply impractical |
4. Tried to shift supply
of workers to the left with licensing, apprenticeships,
child labor laws, etc. to
increase wages. |
4. Control supply of
workers and emphasized collective bargaining to
increase wages |
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Have American CEO's Created an Exclusive Craft Union?
May, 2011 The Rise of the McWorker
The evidence points to the latter. According to a recent analysis
by the National Employment Law Project (NELP), the biggest growth in
private-sector job creation in the past year occurred in positions
in the low-wage retail, administrative, and food service sectors of
the economy. While 23% of the jobs lost in the Great Recession that
followed the economic meltdown of 2008 were “low-wage” (those
paying $9-$13 an hour), 49% of new jobs added in the sluggish
“recovery” are in those same low-wage industries. On the other
end of the spectrum, 40% of the jobs lost paid high wages ($19-$31
an hour), while a mere 14% of new jobs pay similarly high wages.
For more read Welcome
to the McJobs Recovery Andy Kroll, TomDispatch
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In 1955 the AFL and CIO
merged into the AFL-CIO.
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