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refused to sign the agreement and threatened to withdraw the Teamsters from the AFL if forced to adhere to it. Three months after the pact was signed, the Teamsters agreed to submit to the terms of the no-raid agreement. Shortly thereafter, the AFL adopted Article 20 of its constitution, which
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union was such a serious issue that it prompted the trade union centers AFL, and CIO, who had attempted to sign a no-raid agreement for years, to finally negotiate and implement such a pact in December 1953. Initially Teamsters president
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Union raids have been criticized by the labor movement because they promote rivalry between unions and direct resources away from organizing the non-unionized workforce in the United States and Canada, a majority of the total workforce.
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constitution has contained a clause inside Article XX forbidding union raids among its affiliates with various remedies for resolving inter-union conflict.
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a no-raid pact as a first step toward building a working relationship between the competing trade union centers, but the offer was rejected.
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in the United States. In Canada, official data on scale and success of union raids is limited to the Federal government and the province of
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Raids can be informal through campaigning and or soliciting an incumbent union's members or more direct by an outsider union calling for a
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in a bid to take over an incumbent union's membership. Between 1975 and 1989 over 1,414 multi-union raid elections were documented by the
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is when a challenger or outsider union tries to take over the membership base of an existing incumbent union, typically through a
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were effectively voting on which faction of the split "United Electric Workers" they wanted to affiliate with.
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In 1956 Teamsters was ejected by the newly merged AFL-CIO due to corruption scandals.
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in 1947, a number of union raid elections were enacted by the
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Scott, Clyde; Arnold, Edwin; Odewahn, Charles (1992-12-01).
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Arnold, Edwin; Scott, Clyde; Rasp, John (April 1, 1992).
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Trade unions taking over the membership of another union
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forbade its member unions from raiding one another.
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decertification election
NLRB
British Columbia
Canadian Auto Workers
SEIU Healthcare
Taft-Hartley Act
CIO
United Electrical Workers
anti communist
International Union of Electrical Workers
union locals
Teamsters
Beck
Alliance for Labor Action
United Auto Workers
AFL–CIO
AFL–CIO


Communications Workers of America
"Raid Elections: Another Problems for Unions?"
Public Personnel Management
doi
10.1177/009102609202100410
S2CID
154102330
"The Determinants of Incumbent Union Victory in Raid Elections"
Labor Law Journal
ProQuest
"Union Raiding and Organizing in Ontario"

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