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Union Timeline

By 16myrickb

  • Food Fights of East Anglia

    Food riots broke out in East Anglia. Workers demanded a double wage and for the setting of triple prices for food

  • Great Southwest Railroad Strike

    ~200,000 strikers
    ~Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Texas
    ~Citing unsafe conditions and unfair hours and pay
    ~The strike suffered from a lack of commitment from other railroad unions the successful hiring of non-union workers by Gould violence and scare tactics. the strike failed

  • The Battle of Cripple Creek

    ~Cripple Creek was famous for important, dramatic battles where workers fought to win their rights. strong miners union

  • Uprising of 20,000 and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    ~a fire broke out on the top floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory
    ~ Firefighters arrived at the scene, but their ladders weren’t tall enough to reach the upper floors of the 10-story building. Trapped inside because the owners had locked the fire escape exit doors, workers jumped to their deaths. In a half an hour, the fire was over, and 146 of the 500 workers mostly young women were dead.

  • Steel Strike of 1919

    ~350,000 strikers
    ~Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    ~Poor working conditions, long hours, low wages, and corporate harassment
    ~Resulting in the strike’s failure and ensuring an absence of union organization in the steel industry for the next fifteen years.

  • Norris–La Guardia Act

    ~was a 1932 United States federal law that banned yellow-dog contracts, barred the federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes
    ~created a positive right of noninterference by employers against workers joining trade unions.

  • Textile Workers Strike of 1934

    ~400,000 strikers
    ~Entire Eastern Seaboard
    ~Lack of outside support and an excess of textile materials
    ~Union spirit reached new lows in the following years and many workers were blacklisted as a result.

  • National Labor Relations Act

    ~to “encourage a healthy relationship between private-sector workers and their employers” Prior to the NLRA, employers were not required by law to recognize a union or to bargain in good faith.

  • 1946 Bituminous Coal Strike

    ~400,000 strikers
    ~Across 26 States
    ~For safer conditions, health benefits, and pay
    ~They were fined $3.5 million forcing their agreement and the end of the strike most of the UMWA’s demands were met in Truman’s compromise.

  • OSHA

    ~Sets and enforces protective workplace safety and health standards
    ~Ensures safe and healthy working conditions for Americans by enforcing standards and providing workplace safety training

  • Nixon No Match for 200,000 Postal Workers

    200,000 postal workers had a different view. For them, the Great Postal Strike of 1970 was the moment they were "standing 10 feet tall instead of groveling in the dust," as a Manhattan letter carrier put it. They got fed up, joined together, and transformed both the Postal Service and their own lives forever.