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Atlanta's Washerwomen Strike
With Slavery being almost 2 decades from 1881 black laundresses went on strike to get higher wages becasue they felt that they needed to be paid more, causing such a big strike they threatened to call a genral strike, if so that would have cause the entire city to shut down -
Great Southwest Railroad strike
Hundreds and thousands of worker across 5 different states refused to work due to the conitions, pay and hours. Owned by Jay Gould and he replaced those workers with non-union workers. -
The Pullman Strike
Facing 12 hour shifts and cut wages the members of the Pullman Palace car company walked out in protest joined but the american railway union. effectively shutting down train traffice to the west side of chicago -
The Battle Of Cripple Creek
Cripple creek was known for the citizens to go on strike and fight for there own rights, butn1894 gold was booming in cripple creek Colorado causing an uprise. -
Uprising of 20,000 and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
in 1911 the triangle shirtwaist factory caught fire, but the fire department could not get there ladders to reach the 10th floor of the 10 story building, causing workers to jump out of windows because the fire exits were locked -
Texiles Workers Strike Of 1934
400,000 strikers on labor day, it was the low end pay rates and the long hours that the texile workers were having to work so they set out on strike and later it was ended. -
The Fair Labor Standard Act(FLSA)
The Fair Labor Standards Act is an act that set standards for wages and over time. which affects most private and public employment. The standards are must be 16 to wokr and 40 hours for full time and $7.25 for minimum wage. -
Steele Strike Of 1959
In 1959 the steele market was skyrocketing and steele workers finally realized that they should get higher wages than what they were getting. -
The OSHA Act
The OSHA Ac t is an act that was established to meet regulations and safety requirements for the work place. It give employees the training need to recognize a seriosu hazard. -
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act
The act is for serivice men and women that are deployed while working, They can either reapply after serving the terms for the country. The right was given because of the Veterans Employment and Training Service. -
Nixon No Match for 200,000 Postal Workers
200,000 postal workers got fed up, joined together and transformed the postal service. Postal services were apart of 8 craft unions, but were denied the right to bargain collectively over wages and also forbidden the advocate to try an strike against the postal services.
