union timeline

  • laws as in employers weapon

    laws as in employers weapon
    After 1890, courts used antitrust law to rule unions illegally
  • LA times bombing

    LA times bombing
    A bomb explodes at the headquarters of the stridently anti-union Los Angeles Times, killing twenty people. Eventually two men connected with the Iron Workers Union, which has been implicated in other bombings, will confess to dynamiting the Times.
  • Right to work law

    Right to work law
    The National Labor Relations Act authorizes unions to act as workers’ “exclusive bargaining representatives.