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Labor Links:
Strategic Research Online
compiled by Donna Schulman, Librarian
Lenz Library, Cornell University
Starting Points / Megalink Sites
AFL-CIO
http://www.aflcio.org
Page of links of member unions, plus Work-in-Progress, the AFL-CIO weekly newsletter, information on programs, and copies of press releases and testimony.
LABORNET (IGC)
http://www.labornet.org
Progressive labor site; home page offers labor headlines, links to unions and labor-related organizations, labor studies programs, union resources.
UNION RESOURCE NETWORK
http://www.unions.org
Links to union web pages for internationals, nationals, and locals around the world; searchable by geographic area or keyword.
CYBER PICKET LINE
http://www.cf.ac.uk/ccin/union
"World Directory of Trade Unions," organized by geographic area. Includes an international list of union resources.
YAHOO'S INDEX TO LABOR INFORMATION
http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Labor/
YAHOO'S INDEX TO LABOR UNION INFORMATION
http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Labor/Unions
Yahoo lists over 650 labor-related websites. Use the first address to access subjects such as Occupational Safety and Health, Child Labor, History; use the second address for labor union sites.
WORKINDEX
http://www.workindex.com
Directory of work-related sites by subject area; sites are reviewed and summarized by Cornell ILR information specialists.
RESEARCH & INTERNET GUIDES / LABOR UNIONS AND THE INTERNET
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/reference/guides.html
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/reference/Guides/LUI.html
Internet research guides on labor and employment issues prepared by the library staff of the Catherwood Library, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Includes the popular "Labor Unions and the Internet" guide used in Cornell ILR workshops.
Selected Labor Unions
AFSCME
http://www.afscme.org
Wealth of information on social policy issues; excellent online publications including guide to corporate research and how to build a union website.
http://www.aft.org
Excellent salary information; contract language and full text of cba's.
AFTRA
http://www.aftra.org
CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees)
http://www.cupe.ca/indexe.html
Resources on fighting privatization, including corporate research guide.
CWA
http://www.cwa-union.org/home/
PACE
http://www.paceunion.org
Good health and safety information (formerly found on the OCAW web site).
SEIU
http://www.seiu.org
TEAMSTERS
http://www.teamster.org
http://www.uaw.org
Interactive "you are there" history site.
UE
http://www.ranknfile-ue.org
Steward's guides to handling grievances, guide to costing out the contract.
http://www.uniteunion.org
Sweatshop info.
Labor-Related Organizations
AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION
http://www.adr.org
LABOR PROJECT FOR WORKING FAMILIES
http://violet.berkeley.edu.~iir/workfam/home.html
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
http://epinet.org
JOBS WITH JUSTICE
http://www.igc.org/jwj/
News Sites
NEW YORK TIMES
http://www.nyt.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com
DOW JONES
http://www.dowjones.com
EDITOR & PUBLISHER'S MEDIA INFO LINKS
http://www.mediainfo.com/emedia
Excellent site for local newspapers online.
NAA HOTLINKS
http://www.naa.org/hotlinks/index.asp
Guide to numerous media sources.
NEWSBOT
http://www.newsbot.com
Hotbot news search service.
NEWS INDEX
http://www.newsindex.com
Law, Government and Politics
http://www.thomas.loc.gov
Legislative information, including the Congressional Record,
current bills, committee information.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html
Links to Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Public Laws, U.S. Government Manual, and more.
LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE (Cornell University)
http://www.law.cornell.edu
Text of major court decisions, federal, and some state laws.
FINDLAW
http://www.findlaw.com
http://www.dol.gov
http://www.nlrb.gov
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov
http://www.berkshire.net/~ifas/activist/
Contact information for U.S. legislators.
YAHOO CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S_Government/
Politics/Political_Issues/Campaign_Finance_Reform/
http://campaignfinance.org/
Statistical Sites
FEDSTATS
http://www.fedstats.gov
U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
http://www.stats.bls.gov
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU
http://www.census.gov
ECONOMIC STATISTICS BRIEFING ROOM
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html
SOCIAL SCIENCE BRIEFING ROOM
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr.ssbr.html
FINDING DATA ON THE INTERNET
http://nilesonline.com/data/
Wages and Salaries
NATIONAL COMPENSATION SURVEY (NCS)
http://www.bls.gov/comhome.htm
Wage and benefit by occupation for regions around the U.S.
NEW YORK STATE DEPT of LABOR WAGES BY OCCUPATION
http://http://nyjobsearch.org/html/wages/state.htm
Wage statistics by county, metropolitan areas, and regions.
WAGES IN NEW YORK STATE
http://wdsny.org/common/oeswage.htm
Search for salary ranges by occupation and region.
JOBSMART
http://jobsmart.org/tools/salary/Index.htm
This careeer-search website, created by California librarians, includes the best collection of links to salary surveys on the Internet.
EXECUTIVE PAYWATCH
http://paywatch.org
AFL-CIO created web page; view the compensation packages of CEO's of top U.S. corporations.
Safety and Health
OSHWEB
http://oshweb.me.tut.fi/cgi-bin/oshweb.pl
Index of OSH Internet sites; developed by the Institute of Occupational Safety Engineering at Tampere University of Technology, Finland.
U.S. OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (OSHA)
http://osha.gov
Full text laws, regulations, manuals, statistics, and data.
U.S. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (NIOSH)
http://niosh.gov
Provides access to safety and health databases and publications, including "Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards" and the NIOSH bibliography of current literature.
U.S. NEW YORK COMMITTEE ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (NYCOSH)
http://nycosh.org
Guides to dealing with workplace safety problems such as air quality; information on the NYS Worker's Compensation process.
Company Information
COMPANY RESEARCH ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB (AFSCME)
http://www.igc.org/afscme/workplace/corpsch.htm
Research guide, includes section on nonprofit corporations.
FAST MANUAL OF CORPORATE INVESTIGATION
http://www.fastaflcio.org
Available free to Food and Allied Services Trades unions, $25 per year to other union people (fax request on union letterhead to 202-737-7208).
CORPORATE INFORMATION
http://corporateinformation.com
Links to wide range of corporate information sites, U.S. and international, free and fee-based; companies can be searched by industry or geographically.
CORPORATE WATCH
http://corporatewatch.org
HOOVER'S ONLINE
http://hoovers.com
Fee-based profiles of major corporations.
EDGAR (SEC Online)
http://www.freedgar.com
http://www.sec.gov
Full text of financial documents filed by publicly-owned U.S. corporations; see proxies for executive compensation disclosure.
WALL STREET RESEARCH NET
http://www.wsrn.com
Labor History
AMERICAN MEMORY: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS FOR THE NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY
http://www.rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html
The Library of Congress has made available hundreds of photographs, texts, and audio recordings from its archival collections on this web site. Collections include "African American Odyssey"; "Voices from the Dustbowl"; and "Votes for Women."
ARCHIVES OF LABOR AND URBAN AFFAIRS, WALTER P. REUTHER LIBRARY
http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/
Online stories and exhibits (Flint sit-down strike, the IWW, and more); United Farm Workers of America collections guide; current exhibits.
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN SOUTH (UNC--Chapel Hill)
http://metalab.unc/docsouth/index.html
Digitized primary materials on "the Southern experience in 19th century America." Includes slave narratives, southern gentry memoirs, and literature of the period.
THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
Excellent multimedia site created by they Cornell ILR Kheel Center and UNITE!; history, photographs, documents, oral histories, cartoons, research guide for high school students.
CARTOONIST'S UNIONS: A LEGACY OF ARTISTS HELPING ARTISTS: A SURVEY OF OUR HISTORY
http://www.primenet.com/mpsc839/
Click your mouse on the cartoon mouse (a picketing Mickey) to get to this historical exhibit.
Search Engines and Directories
Simple Search Engines
ALTA VISTA
http://www.altavista.com
One of the largest search engines. Excellent advanced features, including translation.
NORTHERN LIGHT
http://www.northernlight.com
Results divided into subject folders. Also searches fee-based databases and offers articles for a small fee.
LYCOS
http://www.lycos.com
LYCOSPRO
http://www.lycospro.lycos.com
Lycospro, the advanced search engine, is useful for locating graphics (just check off "pictures").
HOTBOT
http://www.hotbot.com
GOOGLE
http://www.google.com
FAST
http://www.alltheweb.com
Meta-search engines search several search engines simultaneously.
http://www.metafind.com
DOGPILE
http://www.dogpile.com
ASK JEEVES
http://www.askjeeves.com
Natural language queries.
Directories and Subject Indexes
YAHOO
http://www.yahoo.com
LOOKSMART
http://www.looksmart.com
MINING CO.
http://www.miningco.com
LIBRARIAN'S INDEX TO THE INTERNET
http://www.sunsite.berkeley.edy/InternetIndex
People Directories
BIGFOOT
http://www.bigfoot.com
WHOWHERE
http://www.whowhere.lycos.com
Internet Tutorials and Guides
FINDING INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET: A TUTORIAL
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Internet/findInfo.html
http://www.afscme.org/publications/puttc.htm