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Haymarket Square Riot
The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago. At least eight people died as a result of the violence. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing. -
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
First Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. A trust was an arrangement by which stockholders in several companies transferred their shares to a single set of trustees. In exchange, the stockholders received a certificate entitling them to a specified share of the consolidated earnings of the jointly managed companies. The trusts came to dominate a number of major industries, destroying competition. For example, on January 2, 1882, the Standard Oil Trust was formed -
Great Anthracite Coal Strike
From May to October of 1902, 147,000 workers began a strike which threatened to create an energy crisis. Seeking better wages and conditions, The United Mine Workers of America, or UMWA, struck in eastern Pennsylvania, an area that contained the majority of the nation’s supply of Anthracite coal . As the winter of 1903 approached President Theodore Roosevelt became concerned that a heating crisis could develop and attempted to intervene which was unsuccessful. -
Ludlow Massacre
An attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado -
New Deal- Norris-LaGuardia Act
Outlawed yellow-dog contracts and further restricted the use of court injunctions in labor disputes against strikes, picketing, and boycotts. Imposing strict procedural limitations on issuing injunctions against strike activity, the act pointed the direction towards a more even-handed relationship between the judiciary and the nation's labor relations systems. -
Wagner Act
The workers right to form unions and strike was protected. It obligated employers to bargain collectively with unions selected by a majority of the employees in an appropriate bargaining unit. -
The Longest Strike in U.S. History
The longest strike in U.S. history is the United Auto Workers’ seven-year battle with the Kohler Corporation from 1954 to 196. It turned into a remarkable victory for the union. The strike was centered in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, a town of about 50,000 located on the shores of Lake Michigan. Kohler. -
UPS Workers Strike
Starting on August 4th, 185,000 United Postal Service workers protested. They were looking for the creation of full-time jobs rather than part-time, increased wages, and the retention of their multi-employer pension plan. These workers gained major support from the public and eventually had all of their demands met. UPS, however, lost more than $600 million in business as a result of the ordeal. The protesting ended on August 19th. -
South Africa Miner Strike
Being a one day strike, the entire mining industry went on strike against the unsafe conditions of working in a mine.Many unsave variables caused a rise in deaths between 2006 and 2007, and a government plan to reduce this number, which prompted such a resounding outcry. -
UK Postal Strike
Millions of items were not delivered from the Summer of 2009 to the Spring of 2010, due to picketing postal workers. The strike was formed after Royal Mail failed to disclose how modernization plans would affect workers’ job security. A letter-route sequencing machine, for instance, would, effectively, render human workers obsolete. A deal was eventually made, in the form of higher pay and an agreement to maintain 75% of workers in full-time positions. -
Minimum Wage Strike
Fast-food workers will go on strike in a record 300 cities. Millions of workers in California and thousands in Pennsylvania won historic pay increases to $15/hr and amidst ongoing negotiations for $15/hr for millions more in New York, the want for $15 and union rights continued to build as underpaid workers across the globe said they would wage the biggest-ever day of strikes and protests
