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during this time in Boston shoemakers and coopers would make guild organizations -
New York bakers went on strike to protest the local government regulating bread prices, possibly the first such strike in the United States.
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History.com says that The AFL and CIO joined forces in order to keep growing the unions in order to get higher wages and better workspace. so that the uprising would continue to grow in uncontrollable numbers but eventually when Women and Children started joining the unions it helped them gain many members in just a couple of months.
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PBS says that from the 1860s to the 1910s the US population tripled and so did the workforce. They also say after the civil war National Labor Unions grew very quickly but it didn't last for long for unknown reasons. They also talk bout how the Knights of Saint Crispin was the largest labor union at the time. Another key point in the article is when they talk about the Hay market riot and how it has been one of the key points of the the labor movement
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Printers in New York momentarily organize together to demand a wage raise, then disperse after succeeding. -
AFL-CIO talks about the main events and key parts of their history together and separated because they joined forces in 1955 they also talk about how they supported the Civil Rights Movement, the Immigration movement, and the Gender Equality movement. but mainly the Labor Movement.
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From the 3 sources I have gathered. history.com says that when the AFL and CIO joined forces it was a major point in the Labor movement because many more people would join the labor movement. While PBS Is just giving information on the late 1800s part of the Labor movement it is still really important because people need to know the backstory or how it started and the main causes of it, and that the civil war had a major impact on the labor movement.
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Meanwhile, the AFL-CIO source talks about what and how they have supported since they have become a thing like they helped with the Civil Rights Movement, Gender Equality Movement, and most importantly the Labor Movement they also talked about the main mini-events during all of those movements and what they are about.
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President Martin Van Buren issues an executive order mandating a 10-hour workday with no salary cut. -
A five-month labor conflict in Pennsylvania between the Reading Coal and Iron Company and largely Irish coal miners. -
The United States Supreme Court has overturned section 10 of the Erdman Act of 1898, which made "yellow-dog" contracts illegal. (U.S. v. Adair) The Connecticut Supreme Court rules that a hatters' union boycott is a trade restraint. Union members and strikers are being sued. -
Female shirtwaist workers in New York State stage a "Uprising of the 20,000" to protest sweatshop conditions. -
The WWI leads a strike of 23,000 men, women, and children in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to organize the Lawrence Textile Mills: The "Bread and Roses" Walkout, touted as the first successful multi-ethnic strike, took place in the United States. -
The Railroad Labor Board's salary decrease sparked a statewide railroad walkout of 400,000 shop workers from July 1 to September 1. Strikebreakers were hired by the railroads, heightening tensions between the railroads and striking workers. The "Daugherty Injunction" was issued by federal judge James H. Wilkerson on September 1st, prohibiting striking, assembling, picketing, and a range of other union activities. -
The Delano Grape Strike began on September 8, when members of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, primarily Filipino farm workers in Delano, California, walked off the farms of area table grape farmers, demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage. The mostly Mexican-American National Farmworkers Association, led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, joined the strike a week after it began, and the two groups eventually united to become the United Farm Workers of America. -
In March, 200,000 United States Postal Workers began the greatest "Wildcat" strike in US history, without the sanction of their union and with no legal authorization to strike. The Postal Reorganization Act was passed as a result. -
In contravention of the law, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association struck. President Ronald Reagan, who had just been elected, fired all the strikers and destroyed the union, legalizing the practice of hiring "permanent replacements" for strikes. 400,000 people flock to the Mall in Washington, D.C. for the Solidarity Day labor rally.