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International Federation Of Miners
The Miners' International Federation (MIF), sometimes known as the International Federation of Miners, was a global union federation of trade unions. History The federation was established in 1890 at a meeting in Brussels by unions from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. It was initially one of the largest union federations, with membership reaching 1.2 million in 1913, and this grew slightly to 1.5 million in 1931.James C. Docherty and Sjaak van der Velden, ''Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor'', pp.183 From the 1950s, the MIF began to campaign for common international minimum working conditions. However, with reductions in the number of miners in its heartland of Western Europe, its overall membership began to fall, and was below one million by 1976. The union was based in London for many years, with the British National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) as its largest affiliate. In 1983, Arthur Scargill, leader of the NUM, proposed dissolving the fed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) was an international trade union. It came into being on 7 December 1949 following a split within the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), and was dissolved on 31 October 2006 when it merged with the World Confederation of Labour (WCL) to form the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). Prior to being dissolved, the ICFTU had a membership of 157 million members in 225 affiliated organisations in 148 countries and territories. History In 1949, early in the Cold War, alleging Communist domination of the WFTU's central institutions, a large number of non-communist national trade union federations (including the U.S. AFL–CIO, the British TUC, the French FO, the Italian CISL and the Spanish UGT) seceded and created the rival ICFTU at a conference in London attended by representatives of nearly 48 million members in 53 countries. From the 1950s the ICFTU actively recruited new members from the developing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Federation Of Chemical And General Workers' Unions
The International Federation of Chemical, Energy and General Workers' Unions (ICEF) was a global union federation of trade unions. History The secretariat was founded in August 1907, as the International Federation of General Factory Workers, but became inactive during World War I. It was re-established on 27 October 1920 at a conference in Amsterdam, and set up its headquarters at 17 Museumplein in the city. By 1935, the federation had affiliates in Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and Yugoslavia. The federation held regular sectional conferences for the chemical industry. Following the collapse of the International Federation of Glass Workers, it added a glass industry section, with its first conference in 1938. Similarly, the International Federation of Pottery Workers dissolved before World War II, and in 1947, the federation held the first conference of its new pottery industry section. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Mine Workers Of America
The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American Labor history of the United States, labor union best known for representing coal miners. Today, the Union also represents health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees in the United States and Canada. Although its main focus has always been on workers and their rights, the UMW of today also advocates for better roads, schools, and universal health care. By 2014, coal mining had largely shifted to open pit mines in Wyoming, and there were only 60,000 active coal miners. The UMW was left with 35,000 members, of whom 20,000 were coal miners, chiefly in underground mines in Kentucky and West Virginia. However it was responsible for pensions and medical benefits for 40,000 retired miners, and for 50,000 spouses and dependents. The UMW was founded in Columbus, Ohio, on January 25, 1890, with the merger of two old labor groups, the Knights of Labor Trade Assembly No. 135 and the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of Mineworkers Of Belgium
The Union of Mineworkers of Belgium (french: Centrale syndicale des travailleurs des mines de Belgique, CSTMB; nl, Nationale Centrale der Mijnwerkers van België, NCMB) was a trade union representing coal miners in Belgium. History The union was established on 25 December 1889 as the National Federation of Belgian Miners, incorporating the four major regional unions, which represented Liège, The Center, the Borinage and Charleroi in its early years it focused on reducing working hours and obtaining pensions for elderly miners. Once these were achieved, it also obtained the provision of washing facilities at mines, and a ban on women or children working underground. Membership of the union grew steadily, from 6,966 in 1899, to 39,417 in 1913. On 1 March 1919, it was reconstituted as the "Union of Mineworkers of Belgium", and its membership increased dramatically, to 123,468 by the end of the year. However, its affiliation with the Belgian Workers' Party led some miners to join t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of Metal, Mining And Energy
The Union of Metal, Mining and Energy (german: Gewerkschaft Metall-Bergbau-Energie, GMBE) was a trade union representing blue collar workers in Austria. The union was founded by the Austrian Trade Union Federation in 1945. It was the federation's largest affiliate until 1978, when it was overtaken by the Union of Private Sector Employees. By 1998, it had 205,898 members, with 90% in the metal trades, and most of the remaining 10% working in mining and quarrying. In iron and steel works, it had almost 100% membership. In 2000, the union merged with the Union of Textile, Clothing and Leather Workers, to form the Metal Textile Union.{{cite web , title=Eine Bewegung in Bewegung , url=https://www.oegb.at/cms/S06/S06_999_Suche.a/1342537066882/suche/eine-bewegung-in-bewegung , website=Austrian Trade Union Federation , accessdate=16 January 2020 Presidents :1945: Karl Maisel :1962: Anton Benya Anton Benya (born October 8, 1912 in Vienna, died December 5, 2001) was an Austrian politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Miners' Union
The Swedish Miners' Union ( sv, Svenska Gruvindustriarbetareförbundet, Gruv) was a trade union representing workers in the mining industry in Sweden. The union was founded at a meeting in Grängesberg on 12 October 1895. It initially had 600 members, but grew steadily. It affiliated to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in 1900, and had 4,504 members by 1908. Membership declined rapidly following that year's general strike, but was gradually rebuilt, and reached an all-time peak of 13,337 in 1958. In the winter of 1969/1970, there was a major unofficial strike in the industry, which prompted a brief rebound in membership, but the overall trend was downwards, along with employment in the industry. By 1993, it had only 5,600 members remaining, and the following year, it merged into the Swedish Metalworkers' Union The Swedish Metalworkers' Union ( sv, Svenska Metallindustriarbetareförbundet often shortened in text and speech to simply ''Metall'') was a trade union in Swed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Union Of General Workers
The Norwegian Union of General Workers ( no, Norsk Arbeidsmandsforbund, NAF) is a trade union in Norway. It has a membership of 33,000 and is affiliated with the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO). The union was founded on 13 April 1895, by 12 transport workers, as the Norwegian Road and Railway Union. However, the union decided to accept all unskilled workers, and in 1900 became the NAF. The union was an early affiliate of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, and was initially its largest member, with 25,000 members by 1907. However, the federation wished to establish industrial unions, and so numerous industry groups were split out of the NAF as independent unions. The Norwegian Sawmill, Site and Planing Workers' Union was formed in 1911, the Norwegian Union of Paper Industry Workers in 1913, and the Norwegian Union of Municipal Employees in 1920. The process was stepped up in 1923, when the Norwegian Union of Building Industry Workers, Norwegian Union o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Rhodesia Mine Workers' Union
The Northern Rhodesia Mine Workers' Union (NRMU) was a trade union which existed in Northern Rhodesia between 1936 and 1964. It represented blue-collar, European workers in the copper mining industry. History The NRMU was founded in 1936 by Charles Harris, the General Secretary of the Mine Workers' Union, as a local branch of the South African union. Frank Maybank was the general secretary of NRMU. It was soon discovered that the constitution of the South African union did not allow branches to be formed outside of the country, and the branch separated to form an independent Northern Rhodesian body. The mining companies were initially reluctant to negotiate with the new union, however the Colonial Office, concerned by the threat of a strike, instructed the mining companies to recognize the union if it could recruit over 55 percent of the European mineworkers. The union achieved recognition in September 1937. The union established branches at Broken Hill, Roan Antelope, Mufulir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Rhodesian African Mineworkers' Union
The Northern Rhodesian African Mineworkers' Union (A.M.U.) was a trade union in Northern Rhodesia which represented black African miners in the Copperbelt. The AMU was formed in 1949, and campaigned actively to improve working conditions and wages for African miners, as well as opposing racial discrimination in hiring. The union amalgamated with several other mining unions in 1967 to form the Mineworkers' Union of Zambia. History Formation Trade union organisation among African mineworkers was first initiated in 1935, when workers spontaneously struck over an increase in the native tax levied on Africans living in urban areas. In 1940 following a successful strike by European mine employees, violent clashes occurred in which 17 African miners were killed and 69 injured. The Forster Commission was established to address problems in the working conditions of African miners in response to the incident. In 1945 the new British Labour government decided to encourage the establishm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miners' Federation (France)
The Miners' Federation (french: Fédération des Mineurs) was a trade union representing mineworkers in France. In 1947, the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) suffered a major split, with those on the right of the federation leaving to form the rival Workers' Force. The National Federation of Miners, a CGT affiliate, did not leave, but a minority led by assistant general secretary Noël Sinot split to form the Miners' Federation, which was constituted in 1948. By 1960, the union claimed 21,000 members.{{cite book , last1=Goldberg , first1=Arthur , title=Directory of International Trade Union Organizations , date=1960 , publisher=United States Department of Labour , location=Washington DC , pages=10.1–10.16 In 1963, it worked with the French Confederation of Christian Workers The French Confederation of Christian Workers (french: italic=no, Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens; CFTC) is one of the five major French confederation of trade unions, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Coal Miners' Union
The Japan Coal Miners' Union ( ja, 日本炭鉱労働組合, Tanro), was a trade union representing coal miners in Japan. The union was established in 1950, initially with about 290,000 members. It affiliated to the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan, and later to its successor, RENGO The , commonly known as , is the largest national trade union center in Japan, with over six million members as of 2011.Rengo websitRengo brochure 2010-2011 Retrieved on July 6, 2012 It was founded in 1989 as a result of the merger of the Japan .... It was perhaps the most powerful union in Japan during the 1950s. In 2002, the last coal mine in Japan closed, and this led the union to dissolve in November 2004.{{cite web , title=Withdrawal of TANRO, IYAKUHIN-ROKYO , url=http://www.jtuc-rengo.org/updates/index.cgi?mode=view&no=85&dir=2004/12 , website=RENGO , accessdate=17 October 2019 References Trade unions established in 1950 Trade unions disestablished in 2004 Trade unions in Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian National Mineworkers' Federation
The Indian National Mineworkers' Federation (INMF) is a trade union representing miners in India. History The union was founded in 1949 on the initiative of the Indian National Trade Union Congress, bringing together numerous regional unions of miners. It grew steadily, having 150,000 members by 1960, and 351,000 by 1997, at which time the federation had 139 affiliated unions. By 2017, the union represented 40% of the workers for Coal India. Leadership General Secretaries :c.1960: Kanti Mehta :1980s: Sudhendu Das Gupta :c.1990: Bindeshwari Dubey :c.2000: S. Q. Zama :Lalan Choubey Presidents :1952: Michael John :1970s: Kanti Mehta :1980s: Bindeshwari Dubey :1990s: Sudhendu Das Gupta :c.2000: [Chandra Shekhar Dubey] Ex MP References {{Trade unions in India navbox Trade unions in India Trade unions established in 1949 Mining trade unions 1949 establishments in India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
