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This is a list of labor unions in the United States. Unions exist to represent the interests of workers, who form the membership. Under US labor law, the National Labor Relations Act 1935 is the primary statute which gives US unions rights. The rights of members are governed by the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act 1959. List Below
Union affiliation by U.S. state (2023) Rank ... Iowa: 7.2 0.2%: 107,000: 8.8 ... International comparisons of labor unions;
The time has come for Iowa to repeal its right-to-work law, a regulation that has been on the books since 1947, said Jennifer Pellant, president of the Western Iowa Labor Federation.
Website. umwa .org. The United Mine Workers of America ( UMW or UMWA) is a North American 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. [1] Although its main focus has always been on workers and ...
Despite the rising pro-union sentiment, unions represented about 8.8% of Iowa’s workers in 2023, less than half of the 20% represented by bargaining units in 1990, according to the U.S. Bureau ...
Peter Hird, secretary-treasurer of the Iowa Federation of Labor, said the recertification process should be ditched altogether. “People are the unions and attacks like this are an attack on the ...
Contemporary opposition to trade unions known as union busting started in the 1940s, and continues to present challenges to the labor movement. Union busting is a term used by labor organizations and trade unions to describe the activities that may be undertaken by employers, their proxies, workers and in certain instances states and ...
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union that represents approximately 820,000 workers and retirees in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, Guam, Panama, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands; in particular electricians, or inside wiremen, in the construction industry and lineworkers and other employees of public utilities.