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The Haymarket Square Riot
The Heymarket Square Riot was a peaceful protest against a business. A person then threw a bomb into the middle of the protest and this caused the police to start shooting and it caused a riot. This was one of the most famous strikes. -
The Great Southwest Railroad Strike
The strike started when a member of the Knights of Labor was fired for initiating a company meeting in Texas instead of working in the union at the time. The other members started going onto their trains and started to kill the engines on the trains so they wouldn’t work. Around 200,000 people protested and this strike ended quickly. -
The Ludlow Massacre
The Ludlow Massacre was a protest against a fuel company and the workers would sleep in tents and protest. The fuel company workers created a colony next to the establishment. One day, the national guard came to the workers and shot at them. -
The Wall Street Crash of 1929
The Wall Street Crash, also known as the Stock Market Crash, of 1929 was one of the worst stock market crashes in the United States history. It has said that the Wall Street Crash was a jump start to the Great Depression. Some people believed that abuses by utility holding companies contributed to the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Depression that followed. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s. The unemployment rate during this time was plummeting. The plummeting unemployment rates caused many people to not have jobs, this would cause the union to lose members. -
The Norris-La Guardia Act
The Norris-La Guardia Act states that the government or owner of a business can not prohibit workers from striking. If the workers do not like a policy to an establishment, the workers can strike against that establishment. This Act protects the workers right to peacefully protest against a business. -
The Wagner Act
The Wagner Act states that workers have the right to form unions and strike. When people used to work, they would automatically have to sign up for a Union. The Act protects workers from joining a union. -
The Civil Rights movement
The relationship between the unions and the blacks were not friendly. The unions would exclude blacks from being in their union. This caused the blacks to create their own unions; the first black union was created in 1869. -
The Occupational Safety and Health Act
The Occupational Safety and Health Act states health and safety regulations in the work place. People would work in unsafe and dirty conditions. This Act protects workers from this type of work environment. -
The U.S. Postal Strike
The US postal strike was caused by unsafe work environments and low wages. The workers got a majority of the postal workers throughout New York to protest instead of work. In the span of eight days, the workers got what they had hoped for and got better working conditions and a higher wage. The results of this very short strike was the Postal Reorganization Act. -
The Stock Market Crash of 2008
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 777.68 points in intra-day trading. That was the largest point drop in any single day in history. People who has invested into stocks had lost a significant amount of money and the economy suffered stating that everything was going to drop in price and people were going into debt.
