Examples of labor union in the following topics:
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- Federal Election Commission that laws prohibiting corporate and union political expenditures were unconstitutional.
- Citizens United made it legal for corporations and unions to spend from their general treasuries to finance independent expenditures, but did not alter the prohibition on direct corporate or union contributions to federal campaigns; those are still prohibited.
- Congress prohibited labor unions or corporations from spending money to influence federal elections, and prohibited labor unions from contributing to candidate campaigns.
- Labor unions moved to work around these limitations by establishing political action committees, to which members could contribute.
- Most of the 4,600 active, registered PACs are "connected PACs" established by businesses, labor unions, trade groups, or health organizations.
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- Labor interest groups are a type of economic interest group.
- The National Labor Union (NLU) was the first American federation of unions formed in 1866.
- The strength of labor interest groups continued in the 19th century.
- One example was the American Federation of Labor, a large umbrella group made up primarily of locals involved in craft unionism.
- While labor was more disorganized during the 1920s, the period during and right after WWII saw a continued growth of unions including the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
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- Railroads were the major industry, but the factory system, mining, and labor unions also gained in importance .
- Furthermore, most of the growth and prosperity came in the North and West - states that had been part of the Union.
- Gilded Age politics, called the Third Party System, were characterized by rampant corruption and intense competition between the two parties (with minor parties coming and going), especially on issues of Prohibitionist, labor unions and farmers.
- It was dominated by the new Republican Party (also known as the Grand Old Party or GOP), which claimed success in saving the Union, abolishing slavery and enfranchising the freedmen, while adopting many Whiggish modernization programs such as national banks, railroads, high tariffs, homesteads, social spending (such as on greater Civil War veteran pension funding), and aid to land grant colleges.
- The period featured a transformation from the issues of the Third Party System, instead focusing on domestic issues such as regulation of railroads and large corporations ("trusts"), the money issue (gold versus silver), the protective tariff, the role of labor unions, child labor, the need for a new banking system, corruption in party politics, primary elections, direct election of senators, racial segregation, efficiency in government, women's suffrage, and control of immigration.
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- Most War Democrats rallied to Republican President Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans' National Union Party in the election of 1864, which featured Andrew Johnson on the Republican ticket even though he was a Democrat from the South.
- New Deal liberalism meant the promotion of social welfare, labor unions, civil rights, and regulation of business.
- Some of the party's key issues in the early 21st century in their last national platform have included the methods of how to combat terrorism, homeland security, expanding access to health care, labor rights, environmentalism, and the preservation of liberal government programs.
- Historically, the party has favored farmers, laborers, labor unions, and religious and ethnic minorities; it has opposed unregulated business and finance, and favored progressive income taxes.
- The major influences for liberalism were labor unions (which peaked in the 1936–1952 era), and the African American wing, which has steadily grown since the 1960s.
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- An important example for this are trade unions, educational unions, and labor unions .
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- The late nineteenth century saw many governments starting to address questions surrounding the relationship between business and labor, primarily through labor law or employment law.
- As such, it mediates many aspects of the relationship between trade unions, employers, and employees.
- Labor law arose due to the demand for workers to have better conditions, the right to organize, or, alternatively, the right to work without joining a labor union, and the simultaneous demands of employers to restrict the powers of the many organizations of workers and to keep labor costs low.
- Workers' organizations, such as trade unions, can also transcend purely industrial disputes and gain political power.
- Labor strikes, such as this one in Tyldesley in the 1926 General Strike in the U.K., represent the often fraught relationship between labor and business.
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- The Citizens United case held that it was unconstitutional to ban campaign financial contributions by corporations, associations and unions.
- The Supreme Court held in Citizens United that it was unconstitutional to ban free speech through the limitation of independent communications by corporations, associations and unions.
- Justice Kennedy's majority opinion found that the BCRA prohibition of all independent expenditures by corporations and unions violated the First Amendment's protection of free speech.
- A lobbyist can now tell any elected official: if you vote wrong, my company, labor union or interest group will spend unlimited sums explicitly advertising against your re-election. " The New York Times reported that 24 states with laws prohibiting or limiting independent expenditures by unions and corporations would have to change their campaign finance laws because of the ruling.
- Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion found that the BCRA prohibition of all independent expenditures by corporations and unions violated the First Amendment's protection of free speech.
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- No person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
- New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.
- The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
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- Political parties are lobbied vigorously by organizations, businesses, and special interest groups such as trades unions.
- In contrast to the conservative right, left-wing parties are often funded by organized labor.
- When the Labor Party was first formed, it was largely funded by trade unions.
- For example, the Labour Party in the UK was formed out of the new trade-union movement, which lobbied for the rights of workers.
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- United States labor law is a heterogeneous collection of state and federal laws.
- The Taft-Hartley Act (also known as the "Labor-Management Relations Act"), passed in 1947, loosened some of the restrictions on employers, changed NLRB election procedures, and added a number of limitations on unions.
- The Act, among other things, prohibits jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts by unions, and authorizes individual states to pass "right-to-work laws", regulates pension and other benefit plans established by unions and provides that federal courts have jurisdiction to enforce collective bargaining agreements.
- States and local governments can, on the other hand, impose requirements when acting as market participants, such as requiring that all contractors sign a project labor agreement to avoid strikes when building a public works project, that they could not if they were attempting to regulate those employers' labor relations directly.
- This graph of the minimum wage in the United States shows the fluctuation in government guarantees for minimum standards of labor.