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Went from being a school teacher to a union organizer. Helped coordinate strikes.
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American Union leader, and was one of the founders of the IWW.
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Helped create the anarchist party.
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Founded in 1886 by Gompers. It is a collection of trade unions that will play a major role in the labor movement throught the century.
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Founded the AFL.
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Process of negotiations between employers and a group of employees aimed at reaching agreements that regulate oworking conditions. Founded by Beatrice Webb in the middle of 1891.
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Cabinet department of the federal government. Its purpose is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of wage earners and job seakers.
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Founded in chicago, also known as Wobblies. Only acheived limited success.
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The union goes on strike, demanding a 20% pay raise and a 52-hour workweek. More than 20,000 workers from 500 factories walk off the job. Very successful.
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Deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York. The fire started in a scrap bin under of of the cutter's tables on the eighth floor. The first alarm started 5 minutes after the fire started.
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Sets a floor under the pay of women and minors.
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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. Resulted in violent deaths of between 19 and 25 people.
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Global war centered in Europe. Also called World War, or the Great War. Allies vs. Central Powers
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Enacted to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime
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This act established an 8-hour work day, with additional pay for overtime workers. It was mostly targeted towards interstate railroad workers.
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Economic Depression, which was world wide
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United States federal law. Establishes the requirement for paying the local prevailing wages on public work projects.
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Federal law that banned yellow-dog contracts, barred the federal courts from issuing injuctions against nonviolent labor diputes, and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against joining trade unions. Thought Yellow-Dog Contracts are unenforcable.
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"National Labor Relations Act". Safeguards union organizing efforts and authorizes the national labor relations board to addure fairness.
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Introduced a maximum 44-hour, seven-day workweek, established a nataional minumum wage, guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor".
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Votes to expel 11 unions with almost 1 million members.
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CIO-AFL Merger- Leaders of both groups sign a contract which began a long period of unity.
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Form of union security agreement under which the employer agrees to hire union members only. Employees must stay a member at all times in order to keep their job.
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Place of employment at which one is not required to join or financially support a union (closed shop)
