The All Japan Federation of Metal Miners' Unions (Japanese: 全日本金属鉱山労働組合連合会, Zenko) was a trade union representing ore miners in Japan. The union was founded...

The Miners' International Federation (MIF), sometimes known as the International Federation of Miners, was a global union federation of trade unions. The...

General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (日本労働組合総評議会, Nihon Rōdōkumiai Sōhyōgikai), often abbreviated to Sōhyō (総評), was a left-leaning union confederation...

peer unions fail to come to the strikers' aid. 1893 (United States) American Railway Union founded. 1893 (United States) Western Federation of Miners founded...

Metalworkers' Federation (IMF) was a global union federation of metalworkers' trade unions, founded in Zürich, Switzerland in August 1893. As of 2009,[update]...

The Australian Workers' Union (AWU) is one of Australia's largest and oldest trade unions. It traces its origins to unions founded in the pastoral and...

1990, the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (Sohyo) also joined RENGO. As of July 2012, RENGO has 54 affiliate unions and 47 local organizations...

over a fourth of the world's energy. Since 1890, coal mining has also been a political and social issue. Coal miners' labour and trade unions became powerful...

The International Federation of Building and Wood Workers (IFBWW) was a global union federation of trade unions in the building, building materials, wood...

killed. The miners then rushed the police, forcing them to retreat. The miners seized control of the power plant, with the cooperation of the 30 power...

members of the Aluminum Workers of America voted to merge with the budding steelworker union that was the USW in June 1944. Eventually, eight more unions joined...

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) stepped in and began signing up several hundred miners as members. The IWW formed Metal Mine Workers Union No. 800. Although...

various national federations of the chaebol-based unions emerged, including the Kia and Hyundai Group, as well as regional unions, such as the Masan...

in organizing lumberjacks, metal miners, migrant farm workers, and oil field workers into industrial unions, often as part of free speech campaigns. He...

president of the All Japan "Yakiniku" Association is Tae Do Park (alias Taido Arai). In the 1970s, Korean newcomers started to enter the precious metals industry...

Japanese bureaucrat and politician who was prime minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960. Known for his exploitative rule of the Japanese puppet state of...

commissaries called pulperías. By 1986 Comibol employed more non-miners than miners. Observers severely criticized Comibol's mining policies. Comibol...

passage of the Taft–Hartley Act the term general strike meant when various unions would officially go on strike in solidarity with other striking unions. The...

trade unions from 1945 to 1949. On 15 August 1945, the Empire of Japan announced its surrender, bringing to an end both World War II and the Japanese occupation...

Western Federation of Miners (WFM), which sought to organize miners throughout the West. The Butte Miners' Union became Local Number One of the new WFM...

coal and iron ore. Production was booming, and unions were attempting to organize unincarcerated miners. Convicts provided an ideal captive work force:...

element; it has symbol Pu and atomic number 94. It is a silvery-gray actinide metal that tarnishes when exposed to air, and forms a dull coating when oxidized...

representative of all its dominions, Crown colonies, protectorates, and territories. Such a role was already fulfilled by the Union Jack of the United Kingdom...

knife of the United States Marine Corps. A katana is a Federation sword of Japanese origin. The only major difference compared to the old sword of today...

payment of wages, pensions, and debts to suppliers; and when workers were paid, it was often with bartered goods rather than rubles. Coal miners were especially...

radical trade unionists from all over the United States (mainly the Western Federation of Miners) who were opposed to the policies of the AFL. This was in an...

evacuation of half a million people from the contaminated zones. Strike action of miners in Kuzbass started in 1989; it was actively supported by miners of Donbass...

in miners. In 1713, Bernardino Ramazzini noted asthmatic symptoms and sand-like substances in the lungs of stone cutters. The negative effects of milled...

once a month, and the miners had organized in response, becoming one of the founding locals of the Western Federation of Miners union, Smuggler and Aspen...

suppression of the FRE-led Petroleum Revolution in 1873, after which they were succeeded by a series of unions such as the Federation of Workers of the Spanish...