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Noble Order of the Knights of Labor(1869-1900)
The Knights of Labor was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1869. Its most important leader was Terence Powderly. -
Labor Day holiday created
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a "workingmen's holiday" on that date. -
Haymarket Square Riot
Workers in chicago march for an 8 hr day-protest McComick Harvesting machine.The demonstration, which drew some 1,500 Chicago workers, was organized by German-born labor radicals in protest of the killing of a striker by the Chicago police the day before. Midway into the rally, which had thinned out because of rain, a force of nearly 200 policemen arrived to disperse the workers, and 8 policemen die,100s injured. the Public saw unions and anarchists as problem. -
American Federation of Labor(AFL) formed
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers.They focused on better working conditions.And also union labels on produced items. -
"How the Other Half Lives"
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was an early publication of photojournalim by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums during the 1880s.During the 1880's many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. -
The homestead Strike
An industrial lockout and strike that began on Jun 30,1892,culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6,1892.It was one of the most serious disputes in US lavor history.The dispute occurred at the Homested Steel Works in the Pittsburgharea town of Homested,Pennsylvania,between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Stell Workers(the AA)and the Carnegie Steel Company.The final result ws a major defeat for the union,and a setback for efforts to unionize steelwork -
The Pullman strike
The Pullman Strike was a disturbing event in Illinois history.The company built town of Pullman so workers could rent homes from owner,George M. Pullman, but rents high,and in 1893 wages slashed due to the panic of 1893(depression),but Pullman refused to lower rents.The workers want on strike, led by Eugene V.Debs,within days thousands of railroad workers in 27 states/territories went on strike=no transportatin from Chicago to West Coast.Most state governors supported Business side. -
The Coal Strike
The Coal Strike of 1902 was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania. The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to all major cities (homes and apartments were heated with anthracite or "hard" coal because it had higher heat value and less smoke than "soft" or bituminous coal). President.It was the first labor episode in which the federal government intervened as a neutral arbitrator. -
"The Bitter Cry of Children"
The Bitter Cry of Children is a book by socialist writer John Spargo. Published in 1906, it is an expose of the horrific working conditions of child laborers.For early twentieth-century Progressive reformers committed to social justice, widespread child labor-especially in coal mines, textile mills, and department stores-was particularly disturbing.Children are work in the coal breakers is exceedingly hard and dangerous.The coal is hard, and accidents to the hands, such as cut, broken, or crushe -
The National Labor relation Act passed
The Labor–Management Relations Act is a United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions.this power to punish unfair labor practices.In 1938 Federal regulation of child labor achieved in Fair Labor Standards Act for the first time,minimum ages of employment and hours of work for children are regulated by federal law. -
Pure Food and Drug Act passed
United States federal 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
NEAR CLOSING TIME ON MARCH 25, 1911,
a fire broke out at the Triangle Waist Factory. Within 18 minutes, 146 people were dead as a result of the fire.The fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. -
Congress of Industrial Organization formed
One of the great conflicts within the labor movement existed between the craft unions and the industrial unions. When the American Federation of Labor indicated reluctance to organize unskilled workers, John L. Lewis created the Committee for Industrial Organization within the A.F. of L. in 1935. Facing increased hostility from A.F. of L.’s leadership, he led eight industrial unions out of the A.F. of L. to form the Congress of Industrial Organizations. -
GM sit-down Strie
Strike by General Motors emplayees that shut down plant poerations in Flint,Michigan,and ther cities from Dec. 30,1936-Fab. 11,1937.The action against GM brought the tactic of sit-down strikes and their effectiveness to the attention of the general public.A sit-down strike inbolbes workers remaining in the workplace while on strike to prevent normal business operations from being conducted.In the weeks that followed,The workers were thus able for the first tie in history to participate in GM. -
Fair Labor Standards Act passed
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is a federal statute of the United States. The FLSA 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," a term that is defined in the statute.It applies to employees engaged in interstate commerce or employed by an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce,unless the employer can claim an exemption from coverage. -
Steel strilke
The 1952 steel strike was a strike by the United Steelworkers of America against U.S. Steel and nine other steelmakers. The strike was scheduled to begin on April 9, 1952, but President Harry S. Truman nationalized the American steel industry hours before the workers walked out. The steel companies sued to regain control of their facilities. On June 2, 1952, in a landmark decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer,that the president lacked. -
Major League baseball strike
the 1972 baseball strike was the first players strike in Major League Baseball hhistory. the strike occure from April 1,192 to April 13,1972.Baseball resumed wen the owners and player agreed on a $500,000 increase in pension fund payments and to add salary arbitration to the Cllectibe Bargaining Agreement. -
The Jungle
The following are excepts from "The jungle"by the muckraker upton sinclair. He described the filthy conditions of the meat packing industry in Chicago during the Progressive Era. Upton Sinclair published The jungle in 1905 to expose labor abuses in the meat packing industry. Sinclair's horrific descriptions of the industry led to passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, not to labor legislation. -
New Youk City transit stirke
The 2005 New Youk City transit strike was a strike in New Youk City called by the Transport Workers Union Local 100.Negotiations for a new contract with the Mer=tropolitan Transportation Authority broke over retirement,pension and wage increases.The strike began at 3:00 a.m. on December 20,2005.Most New York City Transit Authority persinnel observed the strike,effectively halting all service on the subway and buses.A Millons of commuters were affected. -
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