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Major event 1: Atlanta's Washerwomen Strike
In the year 1881 a group of African women had made a strike working as a washerwomen because they were living a awful workplace and getting paid almost nothing that they went on a strike in order to assert there own worth and for them to make sure they had rights and when they committed this act of strike they had paved the way for future generations of African american women to fight for there rights in many ways. -
Major event 2: NLRA
The NLRA was the major impact on labor rights because it had given the farm workers to organize unions and engage in collective bargaining aswell as strikes if needed. This organization was to help level the playing field between the workers and the employers. -
Major event 3: Creation of UFW
This organization was made and planned by many members of Cesar Chavez for the farm workers of america mostly those of color and immigrant . This foundation was mostly to help spread the voice of unfair treatment in the work places and the wages that was being given to them. there goal is to make sure they get paid fairly and arent being mistreated and in order to achieve this they have used protest and peacefully manners in order to make there point across. -
Major event 4: The Great Postal Strike of 1970
The great postal strike was a huge strike among postal workers who demanded better wages aswell as working conditions. there were around 200,000 workers and the demand were met which had changed the relations within the USPS service. -
Major event 5: One intertwined struggle for all workers
A large portion of american spend there lives at work or commuting to sacrifice control over their lives for wages. all of the civil rights movements and labor rights are interconnected because they have the needing of organize and bargain on fair conditions for the work place. The PRO act claims that it aims to empower workers with this right to unionize and making sure the goals of civil and labor right workers are met.