AFL football is one of the most loved sports in Australia. This popular game attracts over 13. It has, according to research conducted in 1999 the 3rd highest number of registered players in any Australian sport with the figure standing at 447,436.
As the AFL is a premier sporting competition it commands high levels of corporate sponsorship, massive media coverage for 12 months of the year and huge attendances. .
AFL's main sponsor is Coca-cola with other major sponsorship deals with Mc Donald's, CUB, Ansett and Norwich Union.
AFL also requires a corporate partner and this is the seven network which holds all television rights.
The AFL competition is played in Victoria, Queensland, NSW, South Australia and Western Australia, beginning in March every year and finishing in September. Although this year the grand final is to be played earlier than usual so it doesn't clash with the Olympic games.
During this time the 16 clubs play 176 matches and 9 finals, these matches are split between 9 venues including the newest Colonial Stadium and by the year 2001 Stadium Australia will be opened as a new venue for the AFL.
It has been a rapid evolution for the game that began in 1877 as an official competition called VFA. By 1897 VFL had begun with foundation clubs, 6 of them financially secure.
The VFL expanded to 12 teams by 1925. In 1982 there was a significant change when south Melbourne football club relocated to Sydney to become the Sydney Swans.
In 1990 the name, VFL, was changed to the AFL to reflect the game's reach.
The AFL is now divided into 5 key areas, Football operations, finance, game development, commercial operations, corporate affairs and communications.
The AFL has embarked on a program to build the key areas and participation in newly emerging states that guarantee the long-term future of the game throughout Australia.
At the moment the Essendon football club is the best in the league, with 20 consecutive wins, with superb performance and they aren't stopping until, they"re crowned the premiers of the year 2000.
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was led by Samuel Gompers. The AFL changed the way unions worked. The AFL had a lot of different characteristics than the Knights of Labor because they did welcome all workers. Samuel thought that members of the AFL should be skilled workers and those skilled workers needed protection. ... As of the 1900's the AFL had over 500,000 skilled workers. ...
(AFL-CIO American Federalist, 1) The beginnings of the American Labor Movement started with the Industrial Revolution. ... (AFL-CIO American Federationalist, 1) The National Labor Union in 1866 managed to establish an eight-hour workday in 1868 for federal employees. ... (AFL-CIO American Federationalist, 1) The AF of L was a conglomeration of twenty-five unions that included three hundred thousand workers working for increasing wages, reducing hours, and improving working conditions. (AFL-CIO American Federationalist, 2) Gompers believed that everyone should receive equal pay for equal work...
In December 1886, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) was formed in Columbus, Ohio. The AFL was originally named the Federated Organization of Trades and Labor Union back in 1881. The AFL was a "national union made up of affiliated, individual craft unions" (Boone, 1996, p. 288). The first president of the AFL was Samuel Gompers. ... After the formation of the AFL, the period included significant developments. ...
Women have been struggling for years to receive the same level of respect and hierarchy for some time until last year for Jan Bowman she became the first women president of the Buffalo AFL-CIO Counsel's, labor governing board. ... Borman is one of five women on the 31-member executive board of the Buffalo AFL-CIO Council, which coordinates area locals. ... There are no minorities on the all-white executive board of the Buffalo AFL-CIO Council, and there are few in the top offices of area unions. ...
The primary founder of the AFL was Samuel Gompers. ... They were best characterized by total opposition to the AFL. But, they did have some common ground with the AFL and that was to change the wage and profit system. ... This angered the AFL and they gave an ultimatum to those groups within the AFL who were participating with the Committee. ... As a counter move the ARU asked for the help of the AFL in the strike against Pullman. ...
The AFL sought peaceful cooperation with employers. ... Because technically such positions were not industrial jobs, the AFL and other labor organizations were uninterested in organizing these workers. ... The skilled crafts represented in the AFL usually excluded blacks. Most blacks, however, worked in jobs in which the AFL took no interest at all "as janitors, dishwashers, garbage collectors, domestics, and other service capacities. ...
That is, the AFL generally shied away from industrial unionization as whole. ... Thus, the factionalism and divide within the AFL prior to the inception of CIO, eventually expanded unionization by leading to the establishment of the CIO. ... Although there are drawbacks to being at the mercy of employers, AFL members often supported little-to-no regulation of labor by government. ... AFL and Pulp Workers member John Burke grieved, "The CIO is everywhere these days, spreading its poison and stirring up strike and confusion (10).... These tensions within the CIO internally, and between the ...
For instance, the most prominent extremist animal rights group in the United States, the Animal Liberation Front (AFL), commits illegal acts of crime and violence for the freedom of animals. The AFL is a misguided group that claims to aim for the alleviation of the suffering of animals, but executes such goals illogically and poorly. The AFL "places the suffering of animals on a higher level than the suffering of humans" and sees humans as "using, abusing, torturing and killing animals for no apparent reason" ("A Critique of Animal Rights Ideology"). The AFL, rath...
What motivated Gopmpers to form the AFL was to have a more militant type of union. ... The AFL represented a conservative type of unionism, but was regarded in decidedly different ways. ... When the AFL was founded there were thirteen national unions some of them were carpenters, molders, cigar makers, bricklayers, boilermakers, miners, and so on. ... (Lens 61) The AFL was a conglomeration of twenty-five unions that included three hundred thousand workers working for increasing wages, reducing hours, and improving working conditions. ...
