Trade union, often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees and protecting the integrity of their trade through the increased bargaining power wielded by solidarity among workers.
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The agreements negotiated by a union are binding on the rank-and-file members and the employer, and in some cases on other non-member workers.
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Possibly the first such union was the General Union of Trades, known as the Philanthropic Society, founded in 1818 in Manchester.
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The origins of the Trade union can be traced back to the "Anti-Socialist Cotton Workers Union" that was founded in 1886.
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The second biggest Trade union is the socialist General Federation of Belgian Labour which has a membership of more than 1.
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Back then the liberal Trade union was known as the "Nationale Centrale der Liberale Vakbonden van Belgie".
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The last Belgian Trade union worth mentioning is the very small, but highly active anarchist Trade union called the Vrije Bond.
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The Trade union was formed when Saint John's longshoremen banded together to lobby for regular pay and a shorter workday.
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Trade union granted the union the compulsory check-off of union dues.
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The trade union system was closely integrated with that of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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The Confederation of Mexican Workers, a Trade union affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party which had negotiated sweet-heart contracts with GM since the opening of the plant in 1995, and an allied "independent" Trade union received only small percentages of the vote.
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The level of trade union membership fell sharply in the 1980s, and continued falling for most of the 1990s.
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However, in Japan, union organization is slightly different due to the presence of enterprise unions, i e unions that are specific to a plant or company.
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The service model Trade union focuses more on maintaining worker rights, providing services, and resolving disputes.
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In Poland, the biggest trade union Solidarity emerged as an anti-communist movement with religious nationalist overtones and today it supports the right-wing Law and Justice party.
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