Workers (everything) Flashcards
National Labour Union (NLU): first national labour federation focused on 8-hour day
1866
Knights of Labour
1869
- first trade union
- wanted to united all workers
- 8 hour work day for women
- 10,000 female and 50,000 AA
Great Railroad strike
1877
- pitsburg?
- federal intevention
- injuction and troops
The Haymarket riots
1886
AFL (American Federation of Labour)
1886
- 2 miilion memebrs by 1914
- skilled workers
Louisiana Sugar cane strike
1887
Homestead strike
1892
- homestead steel works
- labour lockout and strike in June lasting 148 days
- The AA (amalgmated association of irion and steel workers)
- had to accept wage cuts
- Memebrship for union doubled and local union tresury has $146,000
- Frick orderd the plant to manufactoure large amounts of steel before withdrawing union recognition
Pullman strike
1894
- sleep car manufacoture
- made a worker town that he owned everthing
- 1893 economic recession led to Pullman decideing to cut the wages of his workers wilst keeping the rent the same
- wildcat strike
- American railway union (the rementants of KOL)
- 27 cities join the strike
- after 89 days 120,000 workers walker of the job leading to 1/4 million workers
- cleavland and the federal government sent 12,000 troops to break it up
- 30 million in damages and 60 deaths
- used the pinkertons a private company before the federal company came in
In Re Debs
1895
- constitutionality of injunctions
- National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
Coal strike
1902
- first time federal government remained nutrual
- employers were not forced to recognise the right to collective bargaining
WWI (NWLB)
1914
the great steel strike
1919
National recovery administration (NRA)
1933
The first new deal
1933
The 1934 strikes
- textile worker srtikes
- 325,000 textile workers in the south
- by Sept 18 421,000 textile workers were on strike throughout the country
- 1.5 million workers strike including West Coast Waterfront Strike and Textile Workers Strike
Wagner act
1935
- pressure applied by the 1934 strike bring about the act
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CIO
1935
- unionisation of key industires (steel mining and auto) (ford 1941) purge of communist members weaken CIO the 50s no?
SSA
1935
- social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older income after retirement
National labour relations board (NLRB)
1935
the second new deal
1935-36
GM sit down strike
1936
Memorial day massacre
1937
FLSA, fair labour standards act
1938
- 40-cent-an-hour minimum wage
- 40-hour maximum workweek
- minimum working age of 16
WWII
1939
Fair employment practice committee
1941
- prevention of racial discrimination in war industiers
- hugle significant for AA
- expansion of AA middle class
union membership by 1945
- Trade unions rose from 8.9 million in 1940 to 14.8 million in 1945 (11% of the workforce 1930 and 36% 1945)
- Increases union power
- In response to a closed shop it worked out a maintence of membership arrangment that proved to be in the unions advantag
- real wages increase increase 70% in industrial earings
Taft - Hartly act
1947
Wildcat strikes, solidarity strikes (general strike), mass picketing, closed shop, ‘right to work’ option out of federal labour laws
- Open shop reduced undermines the strength of unions
- 60 day prepare period
- Cant do wildcat strike
- Dismantle wagner
AFL - CIO merger
1955
Ececutive order 10988
1962
Chavez and the UFW (united farm workers)
1966
Great postal strike
1970
Reagan Presidency and the PACTO strike
1981
Phelps Dodge
Philip Randolph
- founded the brotherhood of the sleeping car porters in 1925 I belive
Bussiness unions V industrial unions
Debs vs US
National war labour board
- during WWI
- 8 hour work day
- during WWI production increased by 35% and real wages increased by 20%
- union membership increased during the war going from 2.7 million to 5 million by 1920
- post war employers fired known union members and went on the offensive
- increase in wages
led to incease in trade unions
in 1943 the president was empowerd to seize any plant where strike action threatended to intersrer with war production
had to give 30 day notice of all strikes
in 1941 ford finally recognised the auto workers union
The brotherhood of the sleeping car porters
1925 i think
welfare capatilism
1920s
yellow dog contracts
1920s
the red scare
IWW
NLU
National industrial recovery act
Social sercurity act
Mephis sanitation strike
1968
the effects of the 1970s deindustrialisation
1970
Lochner v New York unconstitutionality of regulation of working conditions
- 1905
- unconstitutionality of regulation of working conditions
- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) established and militant socialist unionism
Hitchman Coal v Mitchell
1917
constitutionality of injunctions and yellow-dog contracts
Hormel strike
1985
- permanent replacement workers
Operation Dixi
1946
CIO striked and unionization of autombile (GM) and steel (US steel)
1937
National Labour Union (NLU)
1866
first national labour federation focused on 8-hour day
when did Congress passed 8-hour day law for federal workers
1868
great panic and depression causing unemploymenty
1873
1893
Sherman act
1890
interstate commerce, interference with private enterprise declared illegal (applied to unions)
union membersip in 1915
2.5 million
