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Slavery Codes Inception
First slavery codes begin trend of making African servants slaves for life. While different colonies had different ideas of slavery laws, there were a few common standards. Slaves were consider property, they were not allowed to own land, and they were not allowed to gather without the presence of a white person. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Servants and slaves in Virginia create a rebellion against unfair treatment. -
Mill Girl Turnout
The very first turnout of "mill girls in Lowel, Massachusets to protest againt wage cuts. These women lived on the mill, and the owner wanted to reduce wages as profit decreased -
Seneca Falls
Seneca Falls women’s rights convention. While Women mainly focussed on woman's social rights, they also looked at economic equality. -
Molly Maguires
The national uprising of railroad workers that resulted in the hanging of ten Irish coal miners ("Molly Maguires") in Pennsylvania. -
Pullman Boycott
The boycott of Pullman sleeping cars leads to general strike on railroads. -
Women's Trade Union League
Women’s Trade Union League formed at AFL convention. The Wome's Trade Union was a coalition between wealthy society women and working class women. They fought for unionization, so women would be able to work in healthy conditions and be paid fairly for their work. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory in fire in New York kills nearly 150 workers -
New American Federation of Labor President
Samuel Gompers dies and William Green becomes new AFL president -
Stock Market Crash
The stock market crashes as stocks fall 40 percent, unemployment rises, and the Great Depression begins. -
First Minimum Wage
Fair Labor Standards Act establishes first minimum wage and 40-hour week Congress of industrial Organizations forms as an independent federation -
National War Labor Board
U.S. troops enter combat in World Wal II and the National War Labor Board is created with union members. The National War Labor Board was responsible for keeping labor disputes short, and ensuring that progress was not interupted in any way during war time. -
Largest Strike in U.S. history
This year marks the largest strike wave in U.S. history, becasue of the build-up of labor disputes over the course of World War II, when strikes were greatly discouraged. -
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights Act bans institutional forms of racial discrimination, this greatly affects the way people are treated and hired in the work place. -
Black Trade Union
The coalition of Black Trade Unionists is formed. This is the unionization of African Americans in different trades, that were fighting for fair treatment. -
Pride at Work
Pride at Work, a national coalition of lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender workers and their supporters, becomes an AFL-CIO constituency group and AFL-CIO membership grows. This program ensures equality for a all lesbians, gay, bisexual, and trangenders in the workplace. -
Protest of the Free Trade Area
40,000 union activists and allies protest the Free Trade Area of the Americas in Quebec City and Canada. This is the largest anti-globalization mobilization to date. -
Free Choice Act
In April the Employee Free Choice Act is reintroduced into the U.S. Congress as bipartisan legislation, winning support from 182 House members and 37 Senate co-sponsors by June 2005. This act means that workers have the right to form a union at any time if they belilieve their democratic rights are under attack.
