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Workers Rights

By prettyboyjoseph

  • Artisans and laborers in Sons of Liberty protest oppressive British taxes

    Artisans and laborers in Sons of Liberty protest oppressive British taxes

  • Laborers protest royal taxation in the Boston tea Party

    Laborers protest royal taxation in the Boston tea Party

  • American Revolution begins

    American Revolution begins

  • New Hamsphire enacts first state 10-hour-day law

    New Hamsphire enacts first state 10-hour-day law

  • Abraham Lincoln takes office as president and Civil War begins

    Abraham Lincoln takes office as president and Civil War begins

  • National Labor Union founded

    National Labor Union founded

  • Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions formed

    Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions formed

  • American Federation of Labor founded

    American Federation of Labor founded

  • Triangle Shirtwaist factory in fire in New York kills nearly 150 workers

    Triangle Shirtwaist factory in fire in New York kills nearly 150 workers

  • Woodrow Wilson takes office as president and appoints the first secretary of labor, William B. Wilson of the Mine Workers

    Woodrow Wilson takes office as president and appoints the first secretary of labor, William B. Wilson of the Mine Workers

  • Leadership of Industrial Workers of the World sentenced to federal prison oncharges of disloyalty to the United States

    Leadership of Industrial Workers of the World sentenced to federal prison oncharges of disloyalty to the United States

  • Stock market crashes as stocks fall 40 percent; Great Depression begins

    Stock market crashes as stocks fall 40 percent; Great Depression begins

  • President Franklin Roosevelt proposes New Deal programs to Congress

    President Franklin Roosevelt proposes New Deal programs to Congress

  • National Labor Relations Act and Social Security Act passed Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) formed within AFL

    National Labor Relations Act and Social Security Act passed Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) formed within AFL

  • Fair Labor Standards Act establishes first minimum wage and 40-hour week Congress of industrial Organizations forms as an independent federation

    Fair Labor Standards Act establishes first minimum wage and 40-hour week Congress of industrial Organizations forms as an independent federation

  • Largest strike wave in U.S. history

    Largest strike wave in U.S. history

  • Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (Landrum-Griffin) passed

    Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (Landrum-Griffin) passed

  • Occupational Safety and Health Act passed

    Occupational Safety and Health Act passed

  • Organizing Institute created

    Organizing Institute created

  • 40,000 union activists and allies protest the Free Trade Area of the Americas in Quebec City, Canada, the largest anti-globalization mobilization to date.

    40,000 union activists and allies protest the Free Trade Area of the Americas in Quebec City, Canada, the largest anti-globalization mobilization to date.

  • Shortly after his inauguration, President Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which restored the rights of working women to sue over pay discrimination.

    Shortly after his inauguration, President Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which restored the rights of working women to sue over pay discrimination.