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International Union Of Wood Workers
The International Union of Woodworkers (IUW) was a global union federation bringing together unions representing wood carvers, carpenters and joiners. History In 1891, the Belgian union of woodworkers organised the First International Wood Workers' Congress, in Brussels. The conference established an international information service, and this organised a further congress in Zurich in 1893, then a conference of woodworkers was organised in London in 1896, alongside the International Labour Congress. However, the information service then ceased to operate, and new international links were not established until 1899. In 1904, this led to the establishment of the International Union of Woodworkers at a conference in Amsterdam. The federation was based in Stuttgart until 1909, then in Berlin, and from 1920 in Amsterdam. By 1925, it had 44 affiliates in 25 countries, with a total of 1,000,876 members. That year, the small Carpenters' International merged into it. On 1 April 1934, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Union Federation
A global union federation (GUF) is an international federation of national trade unions organizing in specific industry sectors or occupational groups. Historically, such federations in the social democratic tradition described as international trade secretariats (ITS),. while those in the Christian democratic tradition described themselves as international trade federations. Equivalent sectoral bodies linked to the World Federation of Trade Unions described themselves as Trade Union Internationals. Many unions are members of one or more global union federations, relevant to the sectors where they have their members. Individual unions may also be affiliated to a national trade union centre, which in turn can be affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) or the WFTU. Current federations Former secretariats See also *Global Unions Global Unions or Council of Global Unions is a website, which is jointly owned and managed by the International Trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Union Of Furniture Makers
The Norwegian Union of Wood Industry Workers ( no, Norsk Treindustriarbeiderforbund, NTAF) was a trade union representing woodworkers in Norway. The union was founded on 6 February 1904, as the Norwegian Union of Furniture Makers, a split from the Wood Workers' Union of Norway. It affiliated to the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions. Over time, it came to represent wood workers in other areas, such as the manufacture of skis and brushes. By 1963, the union had 5,743 members. In 2009, the union merged into Industri Energi Industri Energi (Norwegian for "Industry Energy") is a Norwegian trade union for employees in the petroleum industry, the chemical industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the aluminium and metal industry and the forest industry The wood industry .... References External links *{{official website, http://www.ntaf.no Furniture industry trade unions Trade unions established in 1904 Trade unions disestablished in 2009 Trade unions in Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Unions Established In 1904
Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market. An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct exchange of goods and services for other goods and services, i.e. trading things without the use of money. Modern traders generally negotiate through a medium of exchange, such as money. As a result, buying can be separated from selling, or earning. The invention of money (and letter of credit, paper money, and non-physical money) greatly simplified and promoted trade. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade involving more than two traders is called multilateral trade. In one modern view, trade exists due to specialization and the division of labour, a predominant form of economic activity in which individuals and groups concentrate on a small aspect of production, but use their output in trades for other products and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodworking
Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinet making (cabinetry and furniture), wood carving, woodworking joints, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning. History Along with Rock (geology), stone, clay and animal parts, wood was one of the first materials worked by early humans. Lithic analysis, Microwear analysis of the Mousterian stone tools used by the Neanderthals show that many were used to work wood. The development of civilization was closely tied to the development of increasingly greater degrees of skill in working these materials. Among early finds of wooden tools are the worked sticks from Kalambo Falls, Clacton-on-Sea and Lehringen. The spears from Schöningen (Germany) provide some of the first examples of wooden hunting gear. Flint tools were used for carving. Since Neolithic, Neolithic times, carved wooden vessels are known, for example, from the Linear Pottery culture water well, wells at Kückhofen and Eythra. Examples of Bronze Age woo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Tarnow
Fritz Tarnow (April 13, 1880 in Bad Oeynhausen, Province of Westphalia – October 23, 1951) was a Social Democrat trade unionist and Reichstag deputy during the Weimar Republic. Tarnow was the son of a carpenter and attended elementary school in Hanover, where he also became a carpenter's apprentice. He then became a journeyman and traveled throughout Germany. He worked until 1906 as a carpenter, and in the years 1901 to 1906, he was also a board member of the Rastatt, , Bonn and Berlin branches of the . Then he worked until 1908 as a literary and statistical assistant in the main office of the Wood Workers Association in Stuttgart. In 1909, he graduated from the central school of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin. From 1909 to 1919, Tarnow was then head of the Literary Agents (Press Office) in the main office of the German Wood Workers' Union, in Berlin. In addition, from 1909 to 1915, he was a community representative, a member of the district assembly and a board memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kees Woudenberg
Cornelis Woudenberg (16 December 1883 – 16 October 1954) was a Dutch trade unionist and politician. Born in Amsterdam, Woudenberg became a carpenter, and in 1901 he joined the De Zaaier, a newly-formed union for young workers. Soon afterwards, he joined the General Furniture Makers' Union. His branch left the union in 1903, preferring a syndicalist approach, but Woudenberg helped form a new branch of the old union. In about 1910, Woudenberg became branch secretary, a part-time role, and from 1913 he also served as treasurer, becoming a full-time official. In 1914, he was elected to the union's executive, and also became vice president, while in 1917 he became one of the union's secretaries. Three years later, he was elected as the union's president, and he also began editing its journal, ''Ons Vakblad''. He helped reform the International Federation of Woodworkers after World War I, and he became its general secretary. He managed to persuade the large American uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Leipart
Theodor Leipart (17 May 1867 – 23 March 1947) was a leading German trades unionist. Life Provenance and early years Theodor Leipart was born into a Protestant family, the seventh of his parents' twelve recorded children, in Neubrandenburg, then in the eastern part of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a grand duchy in the North German Confederation. Ernst Alexander Leipart (1831–1885), his father, was trained and had worked initially as a self-employed tailor specialising in women's dresses. By the time Theodor was born, however, his father had a more itinerant job, travelling for the "Bettfeder-Reinigungs-Anstalt" (''literally, "Bed-springs cleaning institution"''). His mother, born Wilhelmine Charlotte Friederike Schmidt, was the daughter of a machinist. She travelled with her husband, possibly working with him on the bed-springs cleaning, while Leipart was brought up by his maternal grandparents in Neubrandenburg. It was here that he attended middle school and here, in 1881 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wood Workers' Union
The Wood Workers' Union ( fi, Puutyöväen liitto, SPL) was a trade union representing wood industry workers in Finland. The Wood Workers' Union was founded in 1925, but was banned in 1930. Later that year, supporters of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) founded a new Finnish Wood Workers' Union, which affiliated to the Finnish Federation of Trade Unions (SAK). By 1958, the SDP supporters had been marginalised in the SAK, leading the Wood Workers to disaffiliate. In 1960, it became a founding affiliate of the Finnish Trade Union Federation (SAJ), while the SAK established a new rival, the Wood Workers' Federation (PTTL). In 1961, the union renamed itself as the Finnish Wood Industry Workers' Union. The SAK and SAJ merged in 1969, forming the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions, which both the SPL and the PTTL joined. The PTTL finally rejoined the SPL in 1973, which renamed itself as the "Wood Workers' Union". By 1992, the union had 37,150 members. The following yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Brotherhood Of Carpenters And Joiners
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, often simply the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC), was formed in 1881 by Peter J. McGuire and Gustav Luebkert. It has become one of the largest trade unions in the United States, and through chapters, and locals, there is international cooperation that poises the brotherhood for a global role. For example, the North American Chapter has over 520,000 members throughout the continent. Early years The union was created on August 12, 1881, by Peter J. McGuire and Gustav Luebkert. The two men organized groups for collective bargaining, and started a newspaper called ''The Carpenter'' to facilitate their idea of a national union. The Brotherhood held its first convention in Chicago in August 1881. The cornerstone of local and regional affiliations in support of common goals was laid out to show ways to maximize the unions bargaining potential. The immediate common goals were wage and hour demands, and death an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Construction And Woodworkers' Union
The Union of Construction and Wood (german: Gewerkschaft Bau und Holz, GBH; french: Syndicat du bâtiment et du bois) was a trade union representing workers in the building and woodworking industries in Switzerland. The union was founded in 1922, when the Swiss Construction Workers' Union merged with the Swiss Woodworkers' Union, to form the Swiss Construction and Woodworkers' Union, with 15,232 members. It affiliated to the Swiss Trade Union Federation, and by 1954 was its second-largest affiliate, with 71,813 members. In 1974, it renamed itself as the GBH, and in 1986 it became the largest union in the country. Unusually, at times, a majority of the member were non-Swiss nationals. By 1990, it had 124,501 members, 90% of whom worked in construction.{{cite book , last1=Ebbinghaus , first1=Bernhard , last2=Visser , first2=Jelle , title=Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945 , date=2000 , publisher=Palgrave Macmillan , location=Basingstoke , isbn=0333771125 , page=676–678 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Wood Industry Workers' Union
The Swedish Wood Industry Workers' Union ( sv, Svenska Träindustriarbetareförbundet, STIAF or Trä) was a trade union representing wood workers in Sweden. The union was founded on 1 January 1924, when the Swedish Wood Workers' Union was split in two. Like its predecessor, it affiliated to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation. By the end of 1924, it had 8,920 members, and it grew steadily. The Swedish Cooperage Union merged in during 1936, followed in 1949 by the Swedish Sawmill Industry Workers' Union, and in 1962 by the saddlery section of the Swedish Saddlemakers' and Upholsterers' Union.{{cite book , last1=Ebbinghaus , first1=Bernhard , last2=Visser , first2=Jelle , title=Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945 , date=2000 , publisher=Palgrave Macmillan , location=Basingstoke , isbn=0333771125 , page=626–630 Membership of the union peaked at 70,261 in 1979, then gradually declined. By 1997, it had fallen to only 49,964. In 1998, it merged with the Swedish Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Sawmill Industry Workers' Union
The Swedish Saw Mill Industry Workers Union ( sv, Svenska sågverksindustriarbetarförbundet, abbreviated SSIAF) was a trade union of saw mill workers in Sweden. The union was founded in 1891, it was initially known as ''Svenska sågverks- och brädgårdsarbetareförbundet''.Ståhl, Margareta. Vår enighets fana: ett sekel fackliga fanor'. Stockholm: LO, 1998. p. 230 The union died out after a few years, but was refounded in 1897. The refounding followed a decision by the congress of the Social Democratic Labour Party to organize workers in Norrland.http://www.adalen.org/arbetarrorelsen.asp Kymmer Olof Danielsson from Gävle became the chairman of the refounded union. In 1898 it was one of three trade unions that founded the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO). The organization experienced a period of growth between 1905 and 1907, during which many new branches were set up. The name SSIAF was adopted in 1908. SSIAF suffered a severe backlash after the failed 1909 general st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
