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Organized labor movements.
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Founded the AFL.
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Founder of IWW
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First American Labor Movement
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Contracts made by employers that said that the employees could not join into unions.
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Written agreement between two people.
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Negotiations between many employees and employer about working conditions.
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Fire in a factory in which women worked. The women would be locked in the factory until the work was done, so when the fire struck they had nowhere to go and died.
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Promoted the working conditions of the United States.
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Antitrust laws could not affect unions
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19-25 people killed beacause of coal miners striking.
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War between between Allied and Central Powers.
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States that employers could only give employees a maximum of 8 hour workdays and any time spent working past that must be paid overtime.
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Employees do not have to be in a union.
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Need to be in a union to work.
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Contractors had to pay employees at least the local minimum wage. (Before an actual minimum wage)
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Banned Yellow-Dog Contracts, made unions better for everyone.
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Gives employees the rights to have collective bargaining and strike.
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Union for industrial workers
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The lowest amount of money an employer can pay an employee.
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Made a max 40 hour work week for businesses in commerce. Over 40 hours mean overtime.