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Knights of Labor founded
Knights of Labor was the first important labor organization in the United States and it originated as secrect organization meant to protect its members from employer retaliations. This event is important because it promoted the social and cultural uplift of the workingman, rejected Socialism and radicalism -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket Affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration. This event is important becuase it is generally considered significant as the origin of international May Day observances for workers. -
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union founded
Most of the members of ILCWU were textile workers' union were women, often immigrants. They are important because many of them were part of the "Uprising of 20,000," a fourteen-week strike. -
Strike by ILGWU wins pay gains, shorter work days
This event was a labor strike primarily involving Jewish women working in New York shirtwaist factories.This is important becuase they get paid more and their work days a week is shortened. -
Norris-La Huardie Act
Norris-La Huardie Act was a United States federal law that banned yellow-dog contracts, barred the federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes, and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against workers joining trade unions. -
Wagner Act gives workers right to organize
The Wagner Act is a foundational statute of US labor law which guarantees basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work, and take collective action including strike if necessary. This is important becuase it give them all the rights that they should have. -
Taft-Hartley Act allows atates to pass right-to-work laws
Taft-Hartley Act is a federal law regulating labor relations of enterprises engaged in interstate commerce, and it nullified parts of the Federal Anti-Injunction Act of 1932. This is important because it allows states to pass right-to-work laws. -
AFL and CIO merg
Merge to create AFL-CIO brought two different organizations together that “vied for supremacy over the labor movement.” This is important becuase
