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AFL
Samuel Gompers created this, the largest and most influential labor union -
department of labor
is responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics. -
collective bargaining
a negotiation between employers and trade unions used to reach agreements which regulate working conditions -
contract
legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties with mutual obligations. -
Clayton Act
Was enacted to exempt unions from the scope of antitrust laws -
Clayton act
used to to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law -
Ludlow Massacre
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 -
Adamson Act
established an 8 hour workday -
Eugene V. Debs
he ran for president as a socialist -
Great Depression
was a huge economic decline that had devestating results -
yellpw-dog contract
contracts that were signed by an employee and employeer saying that they wouldn't join a labor union. Was widely used until 1930 -
Davis Bacon Act
forces employees on federal works projects to be paid minimum wage -
Norris-LaGuardia Act
Established that employees should be free to form unions without employeer interferences -
wagner act
limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector who creates labor unions and take part in strikes -
CIO
proposed by John L. Lewis & organized workers in industrial unions in the US -
Fair Labor Standards Act
mandated a minimum wage and maximum hour work week for employees of those businesses engaged in interstate commerce -
Emma Goldman
known for her political activism, writing, and speeches. -
closed shop
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