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Noble order of the knights of labor
organized by philadenphia garment workers in 1869. it was opened to farmers,merchants and wage earners.This labor union was to get equal pay for equal work. -
Labor Day
The first Labor Day in the United States was observed on August 26, 1878, in Boston. It became a federal holiday in 1894, when, following the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the Pullman Strike, President Grover Cleveland put reconciliation with the labor movement as a top political priority. -
"How the other half lives"
This journal talks about how peolpe were living in the lower parts of New York city. It says that people living there threw their waste on the street and that they had horses waste every where. -
American federation of labor
It was fucused for better working conditions.they wanted union labels on produce items and it was craft oriented. Another thing that this act did was to search the factories for bad items. -
Haymarket square riot
Workers from Chicago stater d marching an 8 hour day protest McComick harvesting machine. Police came to break the strike. Anarchists were blamed for violence. 8 police amn died and 100s were injured. -
The homestead strike
It was a a culmunating battle between strikers and private security agents. The dispute ocurred in a steel factory in pittsburgh area town of homestead pennsylvania. -
The pullman Strike
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894. Approximately 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages -
The coal strike
The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to all major cities. President Theodore Roosevelt became involved and set up a fact-finding commission that suspended the strike.The strike never resumed, as the miners received more pay for fewer hours. -
"The Jungle"
The Jungle talks about the meat factories doing insanitary things to meat like letting rats to eat the raw meat in the floor. anothe r thing that happend in the jungle was that they didnt care were was the meat. -
"The bitter cry of children"
The bitter cry of childres was a act that was passed because of child labor in the textile factories and coal miners. It was made to stop child labor and to stop exesive working. -
Pure food and drug act
United states law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture,sale,or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. -
Triangle shirt factory fire
on this event the factory owners closed the doors to the factory so no one could get out. But a fire started and it was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from fire in a factory. -
Steel strike
The strike was scheduled to begin on April 9, but precident truman nationalized the american steel industry just before the strike started. Industries sued to regain controll over the steel companies and they got the controll back. -
Congress of industrial organization
United Mine Workers, founded the Committee for Industrial Organization in November 1935. Fed up with the refusal of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to organize unskilled and semiskilled factory workers. -
The national relations act
Labor's right to organize legally recognized. National labor relations board created. Power to punish unfair labor practices.The Act does not apply to workers who are covered by the Railway Labor Act, agricultural employees, domestic employees, supervisors, federal, state or local government workers. -
GM Sit-down strike
The 1936–1937 Flint Sit-Down Strike changed the United Automobile Workers from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major labor union and led to the unionization of the domestic United States automobile industry.During this strike workers remained on their working places but they didn't do anything. -
Fair labor standards act.
This was the first time that goverment used minimun ages of employment and minimun hours of work for children regulated under federal laws.The decision is known as the "portal to portal act." The 1947 Portal-to-Portal Act specified exactly what type of time was considered compensable work time -
major league baseball strike
Baseball resumed when the owners and players agreed on a $500,000 increase in pension fund payments. Owners agreed to add salary arbitration to the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The 86 games that were missed over the 13-day period were never played because the league refused to pay the players for the time they were on strike. -
New York City Transit strike
The 2005 New York City transit strike was a strike in New York City called by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 (TWU). Negotiations for a new contract with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) broke down over retirement, pension, and wage increases.
