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The first national union
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This court case is where the Massachusetts court ruled that unions were legal.
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The first major union that was founed by Uriah Stephens, a Philidelphia tailor. 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 strikes, but their influence declined after they were blamed for killing seven police officers who attempted to break up the meeting in Haymarket Squear, Chicago.
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Founded by Samuel Gompers, organized skilled workers by crafts. They fought for higherwages, shorter hours, and improved working conditions through collective bargaining.
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During Chicago's Haymarket Riots, in which striking McCormick Harvester Workers clashed with police, four strikers were killed
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Was founded to improve wages and working conditions of coal mine workers.
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Steel workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania struck against the Carnegie Steel plant becuase the company had reduced wages. It became violent when the steel company would hire private police strike breakers. In the ensuing confrontation, nine strikers even seven police officers were killed.
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Railroad fireman Eugene V. Debs founded this
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The workers at Pullman Company, which manufactured sleeping and dining cars, went on strike because their wages had been cut. Acting out of sympathy for the pullman workers, conductors and engineers of the American Railway Union refused to handle trains with Pullman cars attached. A federal judge ordered the strikers back to work, and when they refused, President Grover Cleveland sent in federal troups. The ensuing violence turned public opinion against the strikers, and their president.
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Was organized 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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When passed, it allowed picketing and limited the use of injunctions in labor disputes.
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Created by Philip Randolph
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It protected the rights of workers to organize and elect representatives for collective bargaining. Also in this year, the CIO, Congrass of Industrial Organization, was formed by several AFL unions to promote unionism in industry.
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Established a minimum wage(Twenty-five cents an hour) and time and a half for over forty hours of work a week.
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Prohibited child labor
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This is the year it merged
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President Ronald Reagan hired 11,500 air traffic controllers for striking in violation of a no-strike clause in their contract
