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Samuel Gompers created this, the largest and most influential labor union
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is responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics.
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a negotiation between employers and trade unions used to reach agreements which regulate working conditions
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legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties with mutual obligations.
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Was enacted to exempt unions from the scope of antitrust laws
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used to to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law
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the violent deaths of 19 people during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families
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established an 8 hour workday
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he ran for president as a socialist
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was a huge economic decline that had devestating results
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contracts that were signed by an employee and employeer saying that they wouldn't join a labor union. Was widely used until 1930
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forces employees on federal works projects to be paid minimum wage
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Established that employees should be free to form unions without employeer interferences
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limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector who creates labor unions and take part in strikes
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proposed by John L. Lewis & organized workers in industrial unions in the US
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mandated a minimum wage and maximum hour work week for employees of those businesses engaged in interstate commerce
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known for her political activism, writing, and speeches.
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an agreement which the employer agrees to only hire union members, and employees must remain members of the union at all times in order to remain employedwas outlawed in 1947