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Uriah Stephens forms the Knights of Labor. They are ale to organize workers around the country under the radar of management. Amongst first labor organizers.
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Labor rally at the HayMarket square in Chicago. Trying to get 8 hour work days. Everything goes bad when a bomb is tossed at the police who then fire into the crowd. Creates a bad image of labor movements.
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Congress passes this act to prevent business monopolies. It is used effectively by emloyers against unions.
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Lockout at Homstead Steel Works turns violent after 300 Pinkerton detectives get attacked and a small battle is the results. Seven Pinkertons and eleven union members are killed. Court injunctions help crush this union safeguarding the steel industry from organized labor for decades.
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Union workers walk out of factory of th Pullman factory. The company was good to them but the strike ends in total defeat.
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The International Ladies Garment Workers demands a 20 percent pay raise and 52 hour work weeks. 20,000 workers walk out of 500 factories. It is successful and is the largest labor movement by women in history.
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Samuel Gompers, the most influential of the early labor leaders dies at age 74.
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Established guidelines to correct unions unfair labor practices.
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Law allowing federal employees to organize, joinn unions, and bargain collectively with the government. They cannot strike though. This move begins an era of public employee unionization.
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Prohibits discrimination in wages on the basis of sex.
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More than 200,000 post workers walk off the job. It is the first strike of public employees and it is successful by leading to the modernization of the postal service.
