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The decloration of independance
The Declaration of Independence, headed The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the founding document of the United States. -
early labor unions
Early labor unions saw two distinct classes that were seen to be soon separated and those two classes were the poor and the rich. -
American federation of labor
The trade union was a group that was demanding the groups to confine to themselves to their professed labor purposes. After refusal another group was made called the American Federation of Labor, the group marked the past and denied any types of labor reforms. -
Samuel Gompers involvment
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor and with creating that he was fighting fo rone goal in his time and that was to make all working conditions better for everyone in America he did end up succeeding with his goal for some time. -
The Strike at Homestead Mill
Conflict at Andrew Carnegie's steel mill in Homestead, Pennsylvania, in 1892 exposed opposing views on labor rights and was a major chapter in Carnegie's life. In spite of his reputation as a supporter of labor rights, Carnegie backed Henry C. Frick, the factory manager, in a union-breaking move. Various industries saw strikes during the labor dispute, which developed amid a time when there was economic unrest in the US. -
Discrimination in The Labor Movement
With the addition of many new jobs, many of those jobs were discriminating many of the workers based on ethnicity and skin color, but they refrained from getting rid of that until they weren't getting much job members so eventually they lifted it and nearly 3 percent of work members were black and the problem was getting fixed. -
The Labor Movement and The Great Depression
With the big strike of the great depression, the Labor Movement was put down dead center and was discounted for some time in some of the highly needed jobs, however, Roosevelt made a new deal and from 1936 onward the democratic party could count on supplying the Labor Movement. -
Collective Bargaining
With the formation of AFL-CIO, they visually persisted to all the industrial unionism. And with that being created the employees were put in a place where they were able to talk with their employers and negotiate a deal and run a contract with the deal. -
Women and Minorities in the Labor Movement
With all men taking over jobs there was a need to spread unity for other genders and minorities so there was a rant to include and the rant was made into a real thing with the equality guides being much strengthened from doing so and more jobs being opened from these genders and minorities. -
delano grape strike
On September 8, 1965, over 800 Filipino farmworkers affiliated with an organization struck ten grape vineyards around Delano. They demanded a raise both in their hourly wages, from $1.25 to $1.40, and also for every box of grapes that were packed everyday. -
Ive been to the mountaintop
Martin Luther King Jr. King spoke on April 3, 1968, at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. The speech primarily concerns the Memphis sanitation strike. -
He showed us the way
“He showed us the way,” he argues and defends nonviolence as a powerful idea to achieve equality. Chavez's purpose is to prove the goodness of nonviolence and how responding with it can lead to good and no violence. -
Labor Markets and minimum wage
Discusses the need and want for wages and if they are really deserved. Also discusses supply and demand. Wage discrimination is also brought up meaning that some workers are just paid less because of how they look. Higher wages are also offered to increase the productivity in the workspace. Minimum wage is a floor set to prevent work places from paying workers below a certain amount. -
Labor's labors lost? A year after stunning victory at Amazon, unions are stalled
the first Amazon union in the U.S., led by Smalls and other workers at an 8,300-person warehouse on Staten Island, a feat few believed they could pull off. However, Amazon still refuses to sit down for any contract negotiations. As that storms in though the people will continue to fight. -
Labor rights today
The labor movement has been forever changing and will continue to do so but with the new forms of the AFL compared to the older AFL all of the organizations today's are much more diverse with its people and more broadly open to accepting wages and raises among anyone in the workzone as well.