RTE

Question 1

Employers restrictions pre 1933

Answer 1

fire workers for joining unions,
force them to sign a pledge not to join a union as a condition of employment,
require them to belong to company unions,
and spy on them to stop unionism before it got started

Question 2

Wagner Act
AKA
When
What
but

Answer 2

Unions officially recognised
Established the NLRB
Elected representatives could undertake collective bargaining

Constitutional

Women, minorities and unskilled workers left unprotected

Question 3

Taft-Hartley Act
When
What

Answer 3

1947
Limited the power of unions- couldn’t run a ‘closed shop’

Question 4

Haymarket Affair
when
what
effect
KOL membership pre HA

Answer 4

1886
Strike resulted in violence between police and strikers
4 killed
Protest march where a bomb was thrown
7 killed
5 executed

weakned labour movement bc violence put ppl off
Destroyed rep of KOL- which had 700,000 by 1886

Question 5

AFL-CIO Merger
when
what

But

Answer 5

1955
United unions (85% workers represented)
16 million
Pay 20% higher than non-union workers

But no unskilled workers- eg AA