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The first national union was founded in 1834
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Massachusette cournt ruled that union were legal
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Harvesters workers clashed with police four strikers were killed
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Founded by Samuel Gompers, organized skilled workers by craft. They fought for higher wages, shorter hours, and improved working conditions through collective bargaining
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IMprove ages and working conditions
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Steel workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania struck against the Carnegie Steel plant because the ompany had reduced wages.The Homestead Strike of 1892 became violent when the steel companys hired private police to protect strike breakers. In the ensuing confrontation, nine strikers and seven police officers were killed
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Railroad fireman Eugene v, Debs founded the company
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manufactured sleeping and dining cars, went on strike because their wages had been cut. Acting out of sympathy for the Pullman workers, conductors and engineer of American Railway Union refused to handle trains with Pullman car attached
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Organized in 1905 for unskilled workers and immigrants, advocated one large national union that would use strikes and sabotage to achive its goal as opposedto the more peaceful American Federation of Labor
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Allowed picketing and limited the use of injunctions in labor disputes
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Protected the rights of workers to organize and elect representatives for collective bargaining. Also in this year, the CIO, Congress of industrial Organization, was formed by serval AFL unions to promote unionism in idustry
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Established a minimum wage and time abd a half for over forty hours of work a week
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Prohibited child labor
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Merged in 1955
