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Important dates in labor history

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Led the Philadelphia committee in attempt to regulate waste disposal and water pollution
  • Erdman Act

    Erdman Act

    prohibits discrimination against railroad workers because of union membership and provides for mediation of railway labor disputes
  • Women's Trade Union League formed at the AFL convention

    Women's Trade Union League formed at the AFL convention

    This made it so women can have jobs in the 1903 and it was organized to make it so women can get wages
  • Bread and Roses Strike

    Bread and Roses Strike

    begun by immigrant women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, ended with 23,000 men, women and children on strike and with as many as 20,000 on the picket line
  • Railway Labor Act

    Railway Labor Act

    sets up procedures to settle railway labor disputes and forbids discrimination against union members
  • France Perkins (SSA)

    France Perkins (SSA)

    drafts the Social Security Act, greatly increasing retirement security for Americans
  • Nelson Cruikshank

    Nelson Cruikshank

    begins working for the AFL and works hard to expand or establish Social Security, Medicare and national health care
  • William Green and Phillip Murray die

    William Green and Phillip Murray die

    George Meany and Walter Reuther become presidents of the AFL and the CIO, respectively
  • The Frontier Strike

    The Frontier Strike

    The longest successful strike in the history of the United States, the Frontier Strike, ends after 6 years, 4 months and 10 days.
  • Transportation Security Administration

    Transportation Security Administration

    President George W. Bush pledges to strip collective bargaining rights from 170,000 civil servants in the new Transportation Security Administration and denies bargaining rights to airport-security screening personnel
  • Barack Obama signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

    Barack Obama signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

    which restored the rights of working women to sue over pay discrimination