At some time, in the distant past, there may have been an actual structural organizational distinction between a council, federation, confederation, association, brotherhood, and others which caused these combinations of base units to adopt one name over another. In modern times, large organizations continue to structure themselves as they've done in the past, however comparing the structures of two different organizations having similar names can lead to difficulties. One of the organizations may give the name council to a particular structural branch, while the other organization may call the comparable structure a federation.

Adding to this lack of conformity is the combination of the base units into further combined forms such as:

• central unions
• confederations of autonomous unions
• confederations of councils
• councils of societies
• federations of associations
• federations of labour
• federations of unions
• regional secretariats

• Boycotts of Products and Services
  CONTENT: A boycott typically involves asking consumers to stop using a specified product or service while the campaigners settle their dispute with the provider of that product or service. The request to boycott is a familiar way for campaigners to raise awareness to their cause. Once the grassroots has take hold of the boycott action the effectiveness of the campaign can be measured.
  
  
• Child Labour Abolishment
  CONTENT: The eradication of the most harmful forms of child labour is an ongoing process that is active in almost every corner of the globe.
  
  
• Corporation and Business Policy Reversal
  CONTENT: Campaigns can demand that a single act of a bundle of acts by a business be undone. Many times the pressure brought to bear on the company by the protest is enough to overturn the actions of the enterprise.
  
  
• Employee Defense
  CONTENT: Employees can be defended from suits launched by employers who use the attack mode of the legal system to shield their poor management performance from public inspection. Employer associations can be duped into using this tactic to thwart their common opposition while the dominant predator within their ranks connives to dismantle its direct competitor.
  
  
• Employee Support
  CONTENT: Employees often takes steps to gain support from the broader public. By raising awareness to their plight, workers can talk to customers, consumers and government agencies about their difficulties well in advance avoiding industrial action (strike action).
  
  
• Government Policy Reversal
  CONTENT: More often than not, politicians who proceed to enact legislative changes that threatens working families do so with only a partial understanding of the issues. A high percentage of high ranking bureaucrats and top level civil servants knowingly mislead their political masters time and time again. Workers must campaign directly for the attention of the law makers who are shielded from the actual state of affairs by their handlers. Stunts, street theater and traffic shutdowns can be used to stir the reclusive politician to the window on reality from their comfortable chair.
  
  Usually, after having denounced the campaign in a number of fiery retorts, a scandal or fiasco ensues. Often the political life of the candidate is threatened by the fallout. The flawed and failed government policy is then made public and the wonks turfed. The politician follows up by offering thanks to the campaigners for holding true to their cause after having quietly reversing the bad law.
  
  
• Shorter Work Time
  CONTENT: A new approach to ensuring higher quality of work-life and worker output involves reduced worker hours.
  
  
• Sweatshop Abolishment
  CONTENT: Sweatshop workplaces are under attack from around the world. Over the years, these campaigns to eradicate sweatshop labour have been gaining ground. Clearly the consumer can be persuaded to demand sweatshop free products.
  
  
• Worker Struggle
  CONTENT: Regional or nation-based groups of workers band together to demand changes in their societal system. The desire for decent work can be met through many routes. Usually a large number of individuals must work together and promote their cause collectively, since individually they struggle alone and in isolation. Typically a large scale work stoppage ensues. By withdrawing their labour, workers can shut down entire geo-political areas and render the powers that be absolutely ineffective.
  
  
• Worker Support
  CONTENT: Often workers within a particular employment sector toil without relief from their oppression. Even though they work in small groups, by joining together they can effectively bring their issue to the attention of those in power.
  
  

• Actions
  CONTENT: Capitalists use money as their currency. After they have completed their transactions, they record the score in terms of how much MONEY they gained or lost. Politicians use power as their currency. After they have completed their transactions, they record the score in terms of how much POWER they gained or lost.
  
  Naturally, political groups attempt to eliminate the corrupting influence that money can have on the players in their arena. They all enjoy a good prize fight without anyone taking a dive for payola. Likewise, money coiners attempt to eliminate the corrupting influence that power can have on the players in their arena. They all enjoy a good card game without being raided by the authorities.
  
  Activists and their Political Action Committees (PAC) defend their communities against the destructive forces of the money lusters and power brokers.
  
  
• Anarchy
  CONTENT: Anarchist systems do not permit a leader to dominate the process.
  
  
• Candidates and Office Bearers
  CONTENT: Working families look to candidates and office holders to represent their interests. When the politician fails to get the job done, they are voted out of office. Organized labour backs the candidates they feel will best prevent the enactment of the right wing corporate agenda.
  
  
• Commentary and Opinion
  CONTENT: Bloggers, pundits philosophers and pragmatists all offer their insight and point of view as they go at it, hammer and tong, reshaping and reforming the concept of politics.
  
  
• Communism
  CONTENT: Communist systems attempt to distribute all goods and services according to need. Communism's goal is to abolish private property.
  
  
• General
  CONTENT: Facets of the political process attract individuals and groups to comment and take actions in an effort to influence the ongoing proceedings.
  
  
• Internal Union Politics
  CONTENT: Labour organizations welcome dissent and constructive criticism. Such encounters prevent their structures from becoming tired, worn-out and obsolete. Candidates running for union office need to get their message out to the membership. This ensures an informed electorate which can make the best use of their votes.
  
  
• Leftists
  CONTENT: The traditional left wing, allied with wage earners, promote initiatives that oppose those in the right wing, allied with profit takers.
  
  
• Miscellaneous
  CONTENT: Emerging contrarian groups that oppose the established order do not need to embrace a rigid political structure while they evolve.
  
  
• Parties
  CONTENT: Party liners, platform builders, youth, reformers, alliances join together to promote their vision of who will get what, when, why, where, and for how long.
  
  
• Politician Recall Related
  CONTENT: From time to time, an office bearer becomes corrupted by big business. The symptom of this structural rot is indicated when the decision maker can no longer be compelled to perform accordingly for the reward of the politician's currency: MORE POLITICAL POWER. They have lost the craving for power and set material gain as their goal. Other politicians are no longer able to make backroom deals with the corrupted official, since all they have to offer is power, not cash. This sick element no longer wants power, and as such is out of control, rudderless. The healthy politicians cut this rotted appendage adrift and then they set sail for less stormy waters where deals and trades of the power brokering kind can be made in earnest.
  
  The wayward rogue continues making decisions that favour their corporate masters only. They are corrupt to the point that they only respond to those material inducements held out to them or paid for them on their behalf. They are 'on the take'. They relish the meals, trips, parties, presents and payola that is lavished on them for simply having their recorded decisions favour their moneyed benefactor.
  
  Judicial Review is the process that can be implemented asking the court to expunge the record of the rogues' filthy, odious leavings. The court actually undoes the bad decision, restoring the previous state of affairs. Departments or ministries that are the subject of this legal action can run 'headless' for a while after the party leader has declared 'heads will roll' and 'cleaned house'. Similarly major government decisions facing Judicial Review indicate systemic taint and these administrations are usually replaced during the next election cycle.
  
  For other dim bulb performers, Order Mandamus has been used to compel an otherwise recalcitrant politician to fulfill the duties, functions and obligations of their office. Bloated and distracted, corrupt politicians need to be brought to heel before they cause irreversible harm to their constituency.
  
  A new development in the political arena involves the recalling of the elected official in an effort to elect a new candidate in to office. Once the office bearer has been deemed to be totally unfit, and the process of recall begun, there is almost no likelihood that they will be re-elected back into the office they were forced to vacate.
  
  
• Politics, Elections and Voters
  CONTENT: 'Getting out the vote' is probably the single, most reliable, sure fire way to get your candidate elected. Helping people get to the polls is more important than anything your rubber-chicken-dinning, show-boating, glad-handing, cigar-puffing, back-slapping, joke-telling, speech-making, bus-riding, opening-pitch-throwing nominee can do, ever!
  
  
• Resources
  CONTENT: Resources can help voters to participate in the established political system as well as gain insight in to new, radical and less destructive forms of partisan allocation.
  
  
• Revolution
  CONTENT: Some envision a complete replacement of the existing political machinery.
  
  
• Social Democracy
  CONTENT: Promoting that the needs of society are filled using a democratic political process.
  
  
• Toward Democracy
  CONTENT: Democracy is gaining popularity because the process protects society's minorities from the destructive will of society's majorities. Geopolitical subdivisions moving toward this system can share with others in their struggle to establish many democratic institutions.
  
  
• US State Democratic Parties
  CONTENT: The United States political party that is generally sympathetic to the needs of working families presents online information from the federal party, through state, county, district, municipal, and neighbourhood organizations.
  
  

• Career Development
  CONTENT: Choosing a career, planning a career path, and having the right resources can help to ensure a successful, productive career.
  
  
• Empowerment
  CONTENT: Realizing that the power is already accessible is usually half the battle. Wielding the power, fending off attacks, laying claim to the prize, and achieving victory are all learnable, repeatable plays of the power game.
  
  
• Entrepreneurship
  CONTENT: Being your own boss, dominating your niche market, attaining excellence in the business world are possible working for yourself or working for someone else.
  
  
• Equality
  CONTENT: The Women's Movement, the largest, ongoing, unstoppable, worldwide force that will ultimately penetrate every aspect of human interaction needs a continuous stream of newcomers to swell its ranks.
  
  
• Women and Family
  CONTENT: Managing home, work, parents and children can be done successfully once the systemic obstacles have been cleared away.
  
  
• Financial Info
  CONTENT: Figuring, financing and funding hurdles must be overcome on the road to economic freedom.
  
  
• History
  CONTENT: Some stories about those who have risen up and taken on the activist role.
  
  
• Networking
  CONTENT: Telling each and every contact, regardless of how vague the aquaintanceship, exactly what you want, is the one, sure-fire way to getting what you want. To network simply means - Step (1) find some to tell your message to, Step (2) tell them your message, Step (3) repeat step (1) and step (2)
  
  
• Women and Political
  CONTENT: More candidate development leading to office-bearing decision makers at all levels of the organization is key.
  
  
• Social Status Improvement
  CONTENT: Individual status and gender status advancement requires collaboration and cooperation by each member of the partnership. Seek those that help you up, shun those that pull you down.
  
  
• Vocation
  CONTENT: Training, mentorship, internship, and support are required to make that next career move. Seize each opportunity for advancement and make it your prisoner.
  
  
• Working Women Organization
  CONTENT: Formal structures help disseminate the most successful tactics and strategies to the greatest numbers of participants at the lowest cost. Once you understand the rules of the game, and have practiced the fundamentals you can team up with other on the sidelines to keep your skills fresh. Be ready to win economic justice for yourself.