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NYC printers demanded higher pay
NYC printers demanded higher pay, first attempt to organize labor in America. Before long, unions o shoemakers, capenters, and tailors developed, each hoping to negotiate agreements that covered hours, pay and working conditions. -
immigrants threatened unions
immigrants threatened unions that were working to preserve existing wage and labor standards because they were arriving in such large numbers and worked for so cheap -
Civil War
Abe Lincoln becomes president, shortly followed by the outbreak of the Civil War. The origins of the American Civil War lay in the complex issues of slavery, competing understandings of federalism, party politics, expansionism, sectionalism, tariffs, and economics. -
AFL
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) began in 1886 as an organization of craft or trade unions, later added several industrial unions -
Ludlow Massacre
Ludlow Massacre,United Mine Workers of America striked for 14 months against mining company for better pay and working conditions, ended in a fire, dozens killed *pictured is the maccacre aftermath -
great depression
Civil War led to high prices and greater demand for goods and services, great depression -
Norris-LaGuardia Act
economic output reached bottom, Norris-LaGuardia Act prevented federal courts rom issuing rulings against unions engaged in peaceful strikes, pickets, or boycotts -
National Labor Relations Act
National Labor Relations Act/Wagner Act established right of unions to collevtive bargaining -
Fair Labor Standards Act
Fair Labor Standards Act applied to businesses that engage in interstate commerce and set the first minimim wage -
Labor-Management Relations Act
Labor-Management Relations Act/Taft-Hartley Act allowed states to pass right-to-work laws -
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act/Landrum-Griffin Act required unions to file regular financial reports with the government and limited the amount of money union oicials could borrow from the union -
AFL-CIO
disagreement over best way to spend funds resulted in breakup of the AFL-CIO
