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The national trades union
the first national union. -
commonweatlh vs. hunt
a massachusetts court ruled that umions were legal. -
knights of labor
the first major union was founded by uriah stephens, a philadelphia tailer. its membership of nine thousand womenafrican americans, immigrants, both skilled and unskilled. -
american federation of labor
founded by samuel gompers, organized skilled workers by crafts. they fought for higher wages, shorter hours, and improved woring conditions through collective bargaining. -
the homestead strike
steel workers in homestead, pennslyvania struck against the carnegie steel plant because the company had reduced wages, it became violent when the steel company hired private police to protect strike breakers. -
pullman company
manufactured sleeping and dining cars, went on strike because their wages had been cut. acting out of sympathy for the pullmen workers, conductors and engineers of the american railway union refused to handle trains with pullmen cars attached. a federal judge ordered the strikers back to work and when they refused, president grover cleveland sent in federal troops. the ensuing violence turned public opinion against the strikers, and their president, eugene debs, was jailed. -
the international workers of the world
for unskilled workers and immigrants, advocated one large national union that would use strikes and sabotage to achieve its goals as oppesed to more peaceful american federation of labor. -
clayton act
allowed picketing and limited the use of of injunctions in labor disputes -
national labor relations act
protected the rights of the workers to organize and elect representatives for collective bargaining. -
fair labor standards act
established a minimum wage (25cent an hour) and time and a half for over time! -
fair labor act
an amendment to the fair labor actprohibited child labor -
AFL and CIO
the ALF and CIO merged
