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Samuel Gompers
A labor union leader who founded the AFL -
collective bargaining (proposed)
is a process of negotiations between employers and a group of employees aimed at reaching agreements that regulate working conditions -
AFL
was one of the first federations of labor unions in the United States -
contract
is an agreement entered into voluntarily by two or more parties, each of whom intends to create one or more legal obligations between or among them. -
Eugene V. Debs
was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States -
Mother Jones
was an Irish-American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent labor and community organizer. She then helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World. -
Minimum Wage
is the lowest hourly, daily or monthly remuneration that employers may legally pay to workers -
IWW or Wobblies
is an international union. At its peak in 1923, the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its membership declined dramatically after severe government repression as part of the first Red Scare and a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict. IWW membership does not require that one work in a represented workplace,[3] nor does it exclude membership in another labor union.[4] -
Emma Goldman
Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident. Because the managers had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits many of the workers who could not escape the burning building jumped from the building. -
Department of Labor
is a Cabinet department of the federal government of the United States responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics -
Ludlow Massacre
was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado -
WWI (started)
was a global war centred in Europe and was predominantly called the World War or the Great War. -
Clayton act
was enacted in the United States to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency -
Adamson Act
established an eight-hour workday, with additional pay for overtime work -
ILGWU
was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States, one of the first U.S. unions to have a primarily female membership, and a key player in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s -
Open Shop (idea introduced)
is a place of employment at which one is not required to join or financially support a union -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. -
Davis-Bacon Act
a United States federal law that establishes the requirement for paying the local prevailing wages on public works projects -
Norris La-Guardia Act
United States federal law that banned yellow-dog contracts, barred the federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes, and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against workers joining trade unions. -
Yellow-Dog Contract (outlawed)
an agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee agrees, as a condition of employment, not to be a member of a labor union -
CIO
was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. -
Wagner Act
United States federal law that protects the rights of employees in the private sector to discuss organizing and workplace issues with coworkers, engage in collective bargaining, and take part in strikes and other forms of protected concerted activity in support of their demands. The act also created the National Labor Relations Board -
Fair Labor Standards Act
The FLSA introduced a maximum 44-hour seven-day workweek,[3] established a national minimum wage,[4] guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor", a term that is defined in the statute -
closed shop (outlawed)
a form of union security agreement under which the employer agrees to hire union members only, and employees must remain members of the union at all times in order to remain employed
