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The National Trades Union
The first national union. -
Commonwealth v. Hunt
a court case. A Massachusetts court ruled that unions were legal -
Knights of Labor
was founded by Uriah Stephens. By 1879, its membership of nine thousand included women, African Americans, and immigrants, both skilled and unskilled. by 1886, they boasted a membership of seven hundred thousand. They won several important stikes, but their influence declined after they were blamed for killing seven police officers who attempted to break up a meet in Haymarket Square, Chicago -
American Federaton of Labor
founded by Samual Gompers, organized skilled workers and crafts. They fought for higher wages, shorter hours, and improved working conditions through collective bargaining -
Haymarket Riots
In which striking McCormick Harvester Workers clashed with police, four strikers were killed -
United Mine Workers
to improve wages and working conditions of coal mine workers. -
American Railway Union
railroad fireman Eugene V. Debs founded this railway union. -
Pullman Company
Manufactured sleeping and dining cars, went on strike becasue their wages had been cut. Acting out of sympathy for the pullam workers, conductors and engineers of the American Railway Union refused to handle trains with Pullman cars attacted. A Federal judge ordered the strikers back to work, and when they refused, President Grover Cleveland sent in federal troops. The ensuing violence turned publi opinion against the strikers, and their preseident, Eugent Debs, was jailed -
The International Workers of the World
for unskilled workers and immigrants, advocated one large national union that would use strikes and sabotage to achieve its goals as opposed to the more peaceful American Federation of Labor -
The Clayton Act
allowed picketing and limited the use of injuntions in lavor disputes. -
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
created by Philip Randolph -
National Labor Relations Act
protected the rights of workers to organize and elect representatives for collective bargaining. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
established a minimum wage(25 cents an hour) and time and a half for over forty hours of work a week. -
Fair Labor Act
an amendment to this act prohibited child labor -
Merging of AFL and CIO
The AFL and CIO merged -
Air Traffic controllers
President ronald Reagan fired 11,500 in this for striking violation of a no-strike clause in their contract. -
The Homestead Strike
steel wokers in Homestead, Pennsylvania stuck against the Carnegie Steel plant becasue the company had reduced wages.
