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The first labor strike in the United States.
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Workers for the Journeymens Printer company go on strike for better wages.
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Workers at the Gallitins glasswork company go on strike for better workering conditions.
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Workers at the Pawtucket Textile Mill go on strike to improve wage.
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Women working at the Lowell Mill textile mill created the first union for working Women.
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The Knights of Labor is founded by Uriah Stephens.
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Thousands of black washwomen went on strike for higher wages.
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Samuel Goppers starts the American Federation of Labor.
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After the boom of the gold rush people flocked to Cripple and other mining towns. After this miners began to fight for their rights pushing back hours.
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When Firefighters arrived to fight the fires on the top floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory their ladders were not tall enough to reach the 10th floor. 146 of the workers died and it made an uprising of workers safety in the U.S,
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After WWI Miners, Policemen and Textile workers strike causing chaos adding to the fear of the red scare.
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Requires federal contractors to pay their workers for local market to prevent outsourcing.
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Stating that contracts that force workers not to join a union have to be unforceable.
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Sets 40-hour work week with time and a half for extra hours and establishes minimum wage. Puts restrictions on child labor
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Laborers strike in effort to raise minimum wage.
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Federal worketr are allowed to organize and form unions and bagain for pay but cannot go on strike.
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Prohibits discrimination of wages based on sex. Womens earnings climb to 62% of men in 1963 and in 2004 raises to 80%.
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200,000 postal workers banned together to get greater wages, but were denied the ability to bargain salaries due to them being federal workers
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New labor union called Change to Win is formed.