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English planters found Jamestown colony and complain about lack of laborers
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American Revolution begins
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Slave importation prohibited
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Seneca Falls women’s rights convention
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President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
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National Labor Union founded
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First Labor Day parade in New York City
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Industrial Workers of the World founded
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Triangle Shirtwaist factory in fire in New York kills nearly 150 workers
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United States enters World War I
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19th Amendment to the Constitution gives women the right to vote
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Stock market crashes as stocks fall 40 percent; Great Depression begins
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Upsurge in strikes, including national textile strike, which fails
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John L. Lewis resigns and Philip Murray becomes CIO president
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President John Kennedy's order gives federal workers the right to bargain
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AFL-CIO forms A. Philip Randolph Institute César Chávez forms AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., during sanitation workers' strike
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Occupational Safety and Health Act passed
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Coalition of Black Trade Unionists formed
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President Bush pledges to strip collective bargaining rights from 170,000 civil servants in the new Transportation Security Administration and denies bargaining rights to airport-security screening personnel.
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The Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) leaves Change to Win and rejoins the AFL-CIO.
