Sentence examples for promote unionism from inspiring English sources
Business groups fear that the appointment of Craig Becker, a lawyer for the A.F.L.-C.I.O., to the National Labor Relations Board will promote unionism ("Deadlock Is Ending on Labor Board," Business Day, April 1).
During the 1920s the CPUSA's trade-union arm, the Trade Union Educational League, promoted industrial unionism vis-à-vis the craft union-oriented American Federation of Labor AFLL).
Last June the A.F.L.'s Labor League for Human Rights sent him to Germany to promote trade-unionism in the British and American zones.
When the cost of living has risen rapidly, as in wartime, the unionists' ability to secure compensatory rises in money wages more promptly promoted the extension of unionism, especially among white-collar workers who had previously stood aloof from it.
In the 1890s, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) – then and still today the main French union – promoted this type of direct action (notably the general strike) and "revolutionary unionism", organising its members around Fédération des Bourses du Travail (Labour Exchanges).
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At the same time, industrial unionism was also being promoted by the Knights of Labor.
This is the key question now facing Alasdair McDonnell and his embattled troops as they seek to carve out a survival strategy over the next few months: to be inside the tent or out; to offer the electorate something different other than crowing about the party's past record of promoting non-violent nationalism and historic compromise with unionism.
The decline of trade unionism and collective bargaining across the Western world has led to the weakening of the ILO's central task of promoting collective bargaining rights.
