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The Knights of Labor promoted the social uplift of the workingman. They rejected Socialism and radicalism. And they demanded an eight-hours a day shift.
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the was the first federation of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in Columbus Ohio in 1886. They pushed twoards minimum wage.
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In New York they had horrible living conditions which inspired a writer by the name of Jacob Riis to write a novel about it. It was called How the Other Half Lives.
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The Homestead Strike was an industrial lockout and strike which began in June 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents.
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Labor Day became a national holiday after a lot of people died while protesting at the Pullman Strike.
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The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States in the summer of 1894. It pitted the American Railway Union which protested against the Pullman Company.
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The Coal Strike was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners were on strike asking for a higher pay and less hours and to be reconized in the union.
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The Jungle was written by Uptin Sinclair. And described the working conditions in meat packing plants and meat packing districts in the United States.
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This grants rights to some union members. This also protects their intrests.
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is a federal law that sets minimum standards for retirement and health benefit plans in private industies.
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This covered contracts that were with the United States and the troops that served in Vietnam.
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The FMLA entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons with continuation of group health insurance coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave.
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The Black Lung Benefits Act provides monthly payments and medical benefits to coal miners totally disabled from pneumoconiosis arising from their employment in or around the nation's coal mines.
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The mission of the program is to provide lump-sum compensation and health benefits to eligible Department of Energy nuclear weapons workers.
