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With slavery less than two decades behind them, thousands of black laundresses went on strike for higher wages, respect for their work and control over how their work was organized.
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Beginning on March 1, 1886, railroad workers in five states struck against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads, owned by Jay Gould. At least ten people were killed.
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It is a landmark federal statue in the history of United States antitrust law passed by congress in 1890. Passed under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison and it prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators to be anti-competitive.
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In Pennsylvania and the ensuing bloody battle instigated by the steel plant's management remain a transformational moment in U.S. history, leaving scars that have never fully healed after five generations.
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Cripple Creek was famous for important, dramatic battles where workers fought to win their rights.
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It was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894 and a turning point for US labor law, It pitted the American Railway Union against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland.
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It wa attempt by the weakened Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War 1.
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It was a nationwide strike of railroad workers in the United States by seven of the sixteen railroad labor organizations in existence at the time, the strike continued into the month of August before collapsing.
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It is a United States federal law on US labor law. It banned yellow-dog contracts, barred the federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against joining trade unions.
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Established minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards effecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector in Federal, State, and local government.
