RIGHT-TO-WORK
TO: MARSHA TOMLIN
FROM: MELISSA LOVE
SUBJECT: RIGHT TO WORK LAWS FOR NEW MEXICO
DATE: 12/3/2007

Background:

A trade union or labor union is an organization of workers with the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment. The union leaders bargain with employers to negotiate things like: wages, work rules, complaint procedures, rules of hiring, firing, and promotions of workers, benefits, workplace safety, and other important policies. Employers make deals with the unions in return for labor contracts.
The first union in the Unites States was created in 1834 and called the National Labor Union. This union was very ineffective and the Knights of Labor was started in 1869. It did not include Chinese, and only partially included blacks and women. They strongly opposed child labor and demanded and 8-hour day. Its popularity declined in the late 1800s because the public began to view them as anarchists and communists. In 1904,......

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