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This famous involved over 200,000 workers from 5 different states. It was particularly violent and even involved causing a train to disrail. In all, 10 people were killed in the violence.
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A peaceful labor rally in Chicago turned into deadly riot after someone threw a dynamite bomb at police. 4 Civilians and 7 police officers were killed in the violence.
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The AFL (now the AFL-CIO) was a national federation of labor unions. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in May 1886 by an alliance of craft unions
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One of the most serious disputes in US Labor History occurred in Homestead, Pennsylvania between steel workers and Carnegie Steel Company. It was a major defeat for the unions due to a very large militia presence.
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400,000 Textiles walked out on this day in 1934 across the Eastern seaboard, making this, at the time, one of the largest strikes in US History.
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The Wagner Act, was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt on July 5, 1935. It established the National Labor Relations Board and addressed relations between unions and employers in the private sector.
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This strike in Flint Michigan helped the UAW tranform into one of the major labor unions in the country. This strike involved the workers taking over the plant and preventing General Motors from operating.
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Also referred to as the Wages and Hours Bill this act was introduced the forty-hour work week, established a national minimum wage, guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in oppressive child labor.
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After calling it a "dangerous intrusion on free speech, President Truman ended up using this Act12 times himself, to force striking workers to return to their jobs.
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One of the longest work stoppages in US History forcing President Eisenhower to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to force workers 'back-to-work'. The strike shut down almost every steel mill in the country.
