• The National Workers Union (NWU) is a general trade union in Jamaica. The National Workers Union was founded on 2 April 1952 emerging as a result of a...
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  • National Workers' Union may refer to: National Workers' Union (Dominica) National Workers' Union (Guyana) National Workers Union (Jamaica) National Workers'...
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  • The Jamaica Workers and Tradesmen's Union (JWTU) was a general union in Jamaica. The union was established in 1937, by Allan Coombs, and the Marxist Hugh...
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    The People's National Party (PNP) is a social democratic political party in Jamaica, founded in 1938 by Norman Washington Manley who served as party president...
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  • the National Workers Union (which maintained alignment with the PNP). The TUC was a founding member of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions. The...
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    Colony of Jamaica gained independence from the United Kingdom on 6 August 1962. In Jamaica, this date is celebrated as Independence Day, a national holiday...
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  • The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO) is a 5,000-member public sector trade union in Jamaica which represents workers in local and...
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    Jamaica Alliance for National Unity Jamaica Democratic Party Jamaica Independent Movement Jamaica Liberal Party Jamaica Radical Workers Union Jamaica...
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  • The Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) is a national trade union centre in Jamaica. It is affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation...
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  • Immigrants in Jamaica, although this office tended to protect the interests of the employers rather than the workers. Although technically the workers had to...
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  • group of workers. He also formed unions for tram workers, match makers, and for hotel workers. The Trade Union Act 1919 legalised unions in Jamaica, although...
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    moneylender in the capital city of Kingston who had formed the Jamaica Trade Workers and Tradesmen Union (JTWTU) three years earlier, captured the imagination...
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  • The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is a trade union representing education workers in Jamaica. In 1961, the Jamaica Union of Teachers, the Association...
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    Minister Hugh Shearer. Under Manley, Jamaica established a minimum wage for all workers, including domestic workers. In 1974, Manley proposed free education...
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  • Norman Manley (category National Heroes of Jamaica)
    launch the People's National Party which later was affiliated to the Trade Union Congress and even later the National Workers Union. He led the PNP in...
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  • University, Japan National Workers' Union (Dominica) National Workers' Union (Guyana) National Workers Union (Jamaica) National Workers' Union (Trinidad & Tobago)...
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    Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) people in Jamaica face legal and social issues not experienced by heterosexual and gender-conforming people...
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    an annual day of celebration of the achievements of workers. It has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement...
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  • – 21 December 2013) was a Jamaican historian, solicitor and politician. He was a founding member of the People's National Party (PNP) and one of the...
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  • Party of Jamaica' was formed, the Workers Liberation League decided to stay out of it. Instead, the WLL founded the Workers Party of Jamaica (another...
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  • Workers' Union General Centre of Independent and Free Unions of Angola Independent Union of Maritime and Related Workers National Union of Angolan Workers Antigua...
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    Bill Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth (category Deputy general secretaries of the Transport and General Workers' Union)
    October 1938) is a former British trade union leader. He was General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union from 1992 to 2003, and the first black...
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  • Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) is a global union federation of trade unions...
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  • The Jamaica Civil Service Association is an association representing the civil servants of Jamaica. Approval was given by the government of the day to...
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  • unions. It has affiliated unions in 150 countries representing 20 million workers. The Global headquarters is in Nyon, Switzerland. UNI Global Union ratified...
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  • the union and institute the terms of a collective bargaining agreement the board had worked out. The strike involved nearly 12,000 workers in Jamaica, New...
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    Florizel Glasspole (category People's National Party (Jamaica) politicians)
    Union and of the National Workers' Union. He was president of the Jamaica Printers' and Allied Workers' Union, the Machado Employees' Union, and the General...
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  • Helene Davis-Whyte (category Use Jamaican English from March 2012)
    represents 5,000 workers in local and national government and quasi-government agencies in Jamaica. She is also a vice-president of the Jamaica Confederation...
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  • Gladys Bustamante (category People from Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica)
    1912 – 25 July 2009) was a Jamaican workers' and women's rights activist and wife of Sir Alexander Bustamante, Jamaica's first Prime Minister. She was...
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  • International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a democratic global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896. In 2017...
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