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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
The National Labor Union is the first national labor federation in the United States. -
Knights of Labor, was an American labor federation that was active in the late 19th century, especially the 1880s. -
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. -
The Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886 was a labor union strike involving more than 200,000 workers. -
Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894 -
The American Federation of Labor was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO. -
The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, United States. -
The Homestead strike, was an industrial lockout and strike that began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle in which strikers defeated private security agents on July 6, 1892. -
The Pullman Strike was two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression. -
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. -
The US Textile Workers' Strike of 1934 was the largest textile strike in the labor history of the United States at the time, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty-two days. -
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1935 help with the creation the right to a minimum wage, overtime pay for working more than forty hours a week, and provisions related to child labor. -
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935, also known as the Wagner Act, is a foundational statute of United States labor law that guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective action such as strikes. -
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The bill provided for a 40-cent-an-hour minimum wage, a 40-hour maximum workweek, and a minimum working age of 16 except in certain industries outside of mining and manufacturing. -
The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, better known as the Taft–Hartley Act, is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions. -
The 1959 steel strike raised the year's total strike' idleness to 69 million man-days, second only to 1946 in the postwar period.