Last term of office

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregor Gall
Keyword(s):  
Union Membership ◽  
London Underground ◽  
Internal Education ◽  
London Olympics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
General Secretary ◽  
Heart Condition

Crow was returned unopposed as RMT General Secretary in late 2011 for a third term of office. Crow should have served until 2017 but he was cut down in his prime by a heart condition on 11 March 2014. This last chronological chapter begins to lay out the themes for analysis and assessment which are continued in Chapters 8 and 9. It also begins this task by examining a number of issues like growth in union membership, union recognition agreement with employers and the place of women in the RMT. That chapter also examines the success of the RMT under Crow in using the occasion of the 2012 London Olympics to lever better terms and conditions out of employers, the development of the union’s internal education facilities to train reps and activists, and the relationship with his successor, Mick Cash. Crow’s last big struggle combined battling London Underground at the same time as responding to a media attack on his lifestyle during the London Underground dispute.

Trade Union Membership and Job Satisfaction

1987 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 160-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Bluen ◽  
Caroline van Zwam
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Non Union ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Worker Satisfaction ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

The relationship between union membership and job satisfaction, and the moderating role of race and sex is considered in this study. Results show that both race and sex interact with union membership in predicting job satisfaction. A significant 2 × 2 × 2 (union membership × race × sex) interaction showed that white, non-unionized females were less satisfied with their work than black, non-unionized females. In addition, sex moderated the relationship between union membership and co-worker satisfaction: Whereas unionized males were more satisfied with their co-workers than unionized females, the opposite was true for the non-unionized subjects. Finally, union members and non-members differed regarding promotion opportunities: Union members were more satisfied with their promotion opportunities than non-union members. On the basis of the findings, implications and future research priorities are discussed.

scholarly journals Institutional Obstacles and Solutions to the Integration and Development of Cultural Tourism in Chongqing

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Shaoyuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Basic Purpose ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
General Secretary

<p>General Secretary Jinping Xi pointed out that "In the process of promoting the reform of cultural system and the prosperity and development of cultural undertakings and industries, the relationship between ideological attributes and industrial attributes, social benefits and economic benefits should be grasped." The basic purpose of the establishment of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in China is to promote the integration and development of cultural undertakings, cultural industries and tourism, to guide tourism with culture and to promote cultural development with tourism. Based on the current situation of the integration and development of cultural tourism in Chongqing, this paper analyzes its four major institutional obstacles and puts forward specific solutions.</p>

scholarly journals Union Membership as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Living Wage, Job Satisfaction and Employee Engagement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Maleka ◽  
C. M. Schultz ◽  
L. van Hoek ◽  
L. Paul-Dachapalli ◽  
S. C. Ragadu
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Living Wage ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
Living Wages ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractIn many developing countries, lower-level employees are working in workplaces that pay them poverty wages. The need for workers to earn a living wage has long been argued, both within the trade union movement, employers and society, along with the link with job satisfaction and employee engagement. The present study aims to explore the relationship between living wage, job satisfaction and employee engagement, as well as union membership as a moderator in these relationships. A quantitative research approach was employed in this study, and Loess curves were used to graphically predict the relationship between study variables. There were significant relationships between a living wage, job satisfaction and employee engagement. The results indicated that the relationships between the variables were cubic and not linear. Union membership was the moderator in the relationship between living wages and employee involvement. Union membership moderated the cubic relationship between living wages and employee engagement. Union membership also moderated the cubic relationship between living wages and job satisfaction.

Becoming RMT general secretary

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregor Gall
Keyword(s):  
Union Leader ◽  
National Union ◽  
London Underground ◽  
General Secretary ◽  
Radical Left

It is not often that a deputy to a sitting general secretary becomes almost as well known and as influential as the general secretary. But due to his record of struggle, big personality, radical left politics, responsibility for dealing with London Underground and powerbase in London, this was plainly the case with Crow. It was heightened by Knapp’s illness. Together these factors provided a powerful basis upon which to become general secretary. Notwithstanding his refusal to stand earlier against Knapp, Crow had an accelerated path to becoming a national union leader. Compared to Knapp’s tenure from 1983 to 2001, the RMT under Crow would develop apace in regaining lost profile and power. This would be no easy achievement but it was one Crow was committed to achieving personally and politically. The chapter covers his election to the general secretaryship, his first steps in changing the organisation and activity of the union and the divorce with Labour. Prior to the divorce, the RMT began to reorganise it parliamentary group. In this it became a model for how other unions organised their parliamentary groups.

Paternalistic Consumer Co-operatives in Rural England, 1870–1930

Rural History ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICK MANSFIELD
Keyword(s):  
Union Membership ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Great War ◽  
Individual Country ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
Cultural Conservatism ◽  
Village Societies ◽  
Rural England ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe British co-operative movement is associated mainly with industrial areas. Where consumer co-operatives existed in the countryside they were located in market towns and formed by rural trade unions, especially railwaymen, occasionally quarrymen or farmworkers. Yet the Co-operative Union membership encompassed a significant number of small single village societies founded by paternalistic gentry.This paper draws on examples in Shropshire, East Yorkshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire, to offer an account and explanation of the never before studied, paternalistic co-operatives. Recruiting estate workers and farm labourers, individual country squires showed themselves capable of using a co-operative ideology and framework, usually associated with the labour movement, to achieve very different and paternalistic goals. The relationship between these paternalistic village societies and the wider co-operative movement, both locally and nationally, is discussed, including the company paternalism of the Co-operative Wholesale Society's own farming operations. A comparison with the ‘Blue co-ops’ of the Lancashire Conservative dominated cotton spinners’ union is also made. The paper concludes that the failure of paternalistic co-operatives was part of the post Great War revival of rural cultural conservatism, linked to the effects of agricultural depression.

Stalin and the Secretaries of Local Party Organizations, 1921–1927: Subordinates, Clients, or Supporters?

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-202
Author(s):  
Christopher Monty
Keyword(s):  
Central Committee ◽  
Party Organizations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
General Secretary ◽  
Orthodox View ◽  
Stable Network ◽  
Local Party ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Party Congress

This article uses archival evidence to reexamine the relationship between Stalin and the secretaries of local party organizations during the nep. The orthodox view holds that after April 1922 Stalin installed individuals personally loyal to him as secretaries throughout the party’s network of territorial committees. Stalin used these supporters to manipulate the selection of delegates to the Twelfth Party Congress, which allowed him to fabricate majorities in the Central Committee and Politburo. Using operational records generated in the Central Committee Secretariat to examine patterns of secretarial office holding, this article shows that no fewer than 490 officials served as party secretaries during Stalin’s first five years as General Secretary and that rates of turnover among local party secretaries remained persistently high. These findings suggest that Stalin did not construct a stable network of clients among the secretaries of local party organizations prior to the Fifteenth Party Congress.

A Re-Examination of the Relationship between Union Membership and Job Satisfaction

ILR Review ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Gordon ◽  
Angelo S. Denisi
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals 4239 Racial/ethnic difference in the relationship between periodontitis and cardiovascular disease among adult populations

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (s1) ◽  
pp. 143-143
Author(s):  
Magda Shaheen ◽  
Neeraj Harish Khona ◽  
Katrina Schrode
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Ethnic Difference ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Multinomial Regression ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Probing Depth ◽  
Artery Disease ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
Heart Condition

OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Several lines of studies have supported the existence of periodontitis (inflammation of the gums) as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The goal of this study is to evaluate the relationship between periodontitis and CVD among Hispanic, African American, and Caucasian populations. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: We analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2004 (NHANES). The population was all adults with a periodontal exam. Periodontal Disease was defined as mild, moderate, and severe (2 loss of attachments of at least 3mm, 2 sites with probing depth of at least 4mm, or one site with probing depth of at least 5mm). Cardiovascular disease was defined by a questionnaire regarding prevalence of any of 5 diagnosis (congestive heart failure [CHF], coronary artery disease [CAD], angina, heart attack or stroke). Data were analyzed using multinomial regression in SAS version 9.3 taking into consideration the design and weight. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: The study included 3375 adults; 13% were Hispanic and 10% were Blacks, 58% had > high school education, 81% were insured, 11% were heavy alcohol drinkers, 27% were smokers, 13% were physically inactive, 14% had periodontitis, 62% visited dentist last year, 2% had CHD, and 1.5% had CHF or stroke. In the multiple multinomial regression, overall, people with periodontitis were more likely to have both CHD (AOR = 2.0, 95% CI = 1.1-3.8, p<0.05) and CHF or stroke (AOR = 1.8, 95% CI = 1.01, 3.0, p<0.05) than to have no heart condition. There was a racial/ethnic difference in the relationship between periodontitis and cardiovascular disease but it was not statistically significant (p>0.05). DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Overall, people with periodontitis were more likely to have CHD, CHF or stroke than to have no heart condition, but with no significant effect of racial/ethnic group. This study provides a foundation to future studies on the connection of periodontitis and CVD in relation to ethnic/racial groups.

Leonid Brezhnev and Edward Gierek: The Making and Breaking of an Uneven Friendship

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-286
Author(s):  
Jakub Szumski
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Soviet Leadership ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
General Secretary

The article examines the relationship between the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, and the First Secretary of the Polish United Worker’s Party, Edward Gierek, during the 1970s and contributes to the understanding of relationships between Brezhnev and other leaders of the Eastern Bloc. In order to fulfill his foreign policy goals, Brezhnev needed active and willing cooperation from the Eastern Bloc and its leaders benefited from this endeavor. Gierek responded to this demand by entering into an “uneven friendship” with Brezhnev that was established according to the Soviet “friendship code.” This privileged relationship was dependent on the inner situation within the Soviet leadership, the progress of détente, Poland’s domestic stability, and ultimately did not counterbalance Poland’s structurally disadvantageous status in the Eastern Bloc.

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