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The Battle of Cripple Creek was a union strik agents mine owners. The mine owners thought that since there was a surplus of workers, they could cut their pay by 50 cents and make the work more. Instead of 8-hour shifts, they wanted 9 and 10-hour shifts in the mines. -
the FLSA establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards. Affecting most full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and federal, state, and local governments. The FLSA mandates overtime pay for employees working over 40 hours per week, forbids different types of child labor, and has been amended to provide crucial protections against discrimination. -
Cesar Chavez led a movement for the rights of workers in the field with the help of his fellow workers. Cesar Chavez used non-violent strikes to help with the movement, such as the Delano Grape Strike. The Delano Grape Strike was a 5 year long strike aimed to raise the working wage for farmworkers as well as give them the right to unionize. -
Dr. Martin, in front of 2,000 or more people, gave his speech "I've been to the mountiontop" the day before his death to encourage the people to rally together against the wrongdoings of the employers, not just as children of god but as people looking to make a better place. -
President Nixon signed the OSH Act into law on December 29, 1970, giving the government the authority to enforce regulations. OSH started in Kenya, dating back to 1950, with the introduction of the Factories Act. In 1990, this Act was amended to the Factories and Other Places of Work Act to enlarge its scope. -
Pedro Pietri wrote a fiction story about workers dieing trying to make ends meet, but in the end, they die and pass the responsibility to their children in an endless loop -
Cesar Chavez, hearing what happened to Dr. Marti, wrote the speech "he showed us the way," in which he wrote how Dr. Martin showed that violence isn't the answer for violence never goes far and wont chang a thing and you will be just like the employers who harmed uses but in the ways of non-violince it will take you farther you will take the high road and show the employers that we aren't just tools to be used.
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Martín Espada wrote a poem about what the workers of a printing planet go through -
New York prison guards strike over working conditions began illegally walking off the job Feb. 17 at many state prisons. Inmates have complained about deteriorating conditions behind bars since the walkout. And the death of a 22-year-old man this month at a prison near Utica is being investigated by a special prosecutor.