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Led the Philadelphia committee in attempt to regulate waste disposal and water pollution -
prohibits discrimination against railroad workers because of union membership and provides for mediation of railway labor disputes -
This made it so women can have jobs in the 1903 and it was organized to make it so women can get wages -
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 -
sets up procedures to settle railway labor disputes and forbids discrimination against union members -
drafts the Social Security Act, greatly increasing retirement security for Americans -
begins working for the AFL and works hard to expand or establish Social Security, Medicare and national health care -
George Meany and Walter Reuther become presidents of the AFL and the CIO, respectively -
The longest successful strike in the history of the United States, the Frontier Strike, ends after 6 years, 4 months and 10 days. -
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 -
which restored the rights of working women to sue over pay discrimination