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Great Southwest Railroad Strike
The strike suffered from a lack of commitment from other railroad unions, the successful hiring of nonunion workers by Gould and from violence and scare tactics. Eventually, the strike failed and the Knights of Labor disbanded soon afterwards. -
Pullman Strike
Facing 12-hour work days and wage cuts resulting from the depressed economy, factory workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company walked out in protest. The workers were soon joined by members of the American Railway Union (ARU), who refused to work on or run any trains, including Pullman-owned cars. Soon enough, 250,000 industry workers joined in the strike. -
Railroad Shop Workers Strike of 1922
In 1922, the railroad labor board announced that wages for railroad shop workers would be cut by 7 cents a considerable sum at the time. In early July of that year, 400,000 rail shop laborers from a conglomeration of unions went on strike. -
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935
commonly known as the Wagner Act after Senator Robert R. Wagner of New York, was to guarantee employees the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations. -
1946 Bituminous Coal Strike
the United Mine Workers of America called on 400,000 bituminous coal miners to strike for safer conditions, health benefits and pay. -
The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947
better known as the Taft–Hartley Act, is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions. -
Employee free choice act
Protects workers right to join together in unions and make it harder for management to threaten workers seeking to organize a union -
Right-To-Work Law
allow workers to refuse to join a union and pay union dues, even if they're employed in a unionized workplace.
