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National Trades Union
formed in New York when the New York General Trades' Union solicited labor organizations from around the country to send delegates to a national convention. This union was the first attempt to create a national labor federation. -
Ten Hour Movement
They drafted a strike circular in Boston outlining their demands and seeking assistance from other tradespeople. Wherever this circular was distributed, a strike in favor of the ten-hour workday erupted. -
tompkins square riots
As unemployed workers demonstrated in New York City's Tompkins Square Park, a detachment of mounted police charged into the crowd, beating men, women and children indiscriminately with billy clubs and leaving hundreds of casualties in their wake -
the eight-hour day
Workers protested in the streets to demand the universal adoption of the eight-hour day. Hundreds of thousands of American workers had joined the Knights of Labor. The movement ultimately failed -
Maryland State Highway Administration
Formed in 1908 as the State Roads Commission (SRC),[3] it is tasked with maintaining non-tolled bridges throughout the state, removing snow from the state's major thoroughfares, -
accident report act
The 1910 Accident Reports Act was passed and a 10-hour work day and standardization of rates of pay and working conditions were won by the Railway Brotherhoods -
locomotive inspection act
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the right to strike
A Bolshevik incites miners to strike, causing the death of the son of a doctor, who then strikes against the miners. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
The FLSA introduced the forty-hour workweek, 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" -
Age discrimination in employment act
forbids employment discrimination against anyone at least 40 years of age -
Occupational Safety and Health Act
a federal agency of the United States that regulates workplace safety and health -
Taft Hartley Act
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, sponsored by U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, was designed to amend much of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935
