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The first national union.
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a court case. A Massachusetts court ruled that unions were legal
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was founded by Uriah Stephens. By 1879, its membership of nine thousand included women, African Americans, and immigrants, both skilled and unskilled. by 1886, they boasted a membership of seven hundred thousand. They won several important stikes, but their influence declined after they were blamed for killing seven police officers who attempted to break up a meet in Haymarket Square, Chicago
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founded by Samual Gompers, organized skilled workers and crafts. They fought for higher wages, shorter hours, and improved working conditions through collective bargaining
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In which striking McCormick Harvester Workers clashed with police, four strikers were killed
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to improve wages and working conditions of coal mine workers.
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railroad fireman Eugene V. Debs founded this railway union.
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Manufactured sleeping and dining cars, went on strike becasue their wages had been cut. Acting out of sympathy for the pullam workers, conductors and engineers of the American Railway Union refused to handle trains with Pullman cars attacted. A Federal judge ordered the strikers back to work, and when they refused, President Grover Cleveland sent in federal troops. The ensuing violence turned publi opinion against the strikers, and their preseident, Eugent Debs, was jailed
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for unskilled workers and immigrants, advocated one large national union that would use strikes and sabotage to achieve its goals as opposed to the more peaceful American Federation of Labor
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allowed picketing and limited the use of injuntions in lavor disputes.
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created by Philip Randolph
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protected the rights of workers to organize and elect representatives for collective bargaining.
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established a minimum wage(25 cents an hour) and time and a half for over forty hours of work a week.
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an amendment to this act prohibited child labor
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The AFL and CIO merged
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President ronald Reagan fired 11,500 in this for striking violation of a no-strike clause in their contract.
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steel wokers in Homestead, Pennsylvania stuck against the Carnegie Steel plant becasue the company had reduced wages.
