Trade Unions
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- Created on: 12-04-19 08:14
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- Trade Unions
- Key Events
- 1834 - GNCTU
- 1834 - Tolpuddle Martyrs
- 1850s and 60s - New Model Unions, Amalgamated Society of Engineers
- 1868 - Trade Union Congress
- 1880s - New Unions
- 1888 - Match Girls Strike
- 1893 - Labour Party
- GNCTU
- Combined all workers and trades in an attempt to organise a General Strike
- Lasted 6 months
- Organised by Robert Owen
- Defensive aim aver the Combination Acts
- 1799 - Combination Acts made unions illegal
- Claimed to have 500,000 members, although 16,000 is more likely
- Tolpuddle Martyrs
- 1834, 6 agricultural labourers arrested for forming a Trade Union
- All members had to swear an oath of allegiance which was illegal according to the 1997 Unlawful Oaths Act
- Triggered by a third cut to wages per week from 10 to 7 shillings
- George Loveless was a Methodist and played an active part in the Union
- All sentenced to 7 years transportation
- 200,000 marched to Parliament to demand their return
- 800,000 names on a petition to return them
- Government relented and they were allowed back
- Loveless pamphlet quoted at Chartist Meetings
- 1834, 6 agricultural labourers arrested for forming a Trade Union
- Amalgamated Society of Engineers
- New Model Union
- 35,000 members by 1870
- Members through subscription and meetings
- Subscription fluctuated with work
- Membership cost 1 shilling per week
- Trade Union Congress
- Emerged to co-ordinate localised unions
- Got people to vote on equal pay
- Principle of equality undermined, as only 2 women were ever present at any meeting
- Match Workers
- Paid only 5 shillings a week for dangerous work
- Led By Annie Besant who campaigned for rights her whole life
- New Union
- 1888 Strike was the first time ever, non-skilled women went on strike
- 50 girls marched to Parliament to demand change
- London Dockers
- Triggered by 12,000 people fighting for only 5,000 jobs
- Organised a strike at South Quay
- £30,000 as a gift from Australian Unions
- New Union
- Aimed for a pay rise from 4 to 6d per hour and 4 hours minimum employment
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