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13th Amendment
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any subject to their jurisdiction." The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easilly passed the Congress. -
National Labor Union
Founded in 1866 and dissolved in 1873. National Labor Union begun at a conference in Baltimore in 1866. The organization was a pioneering coalition of trade unionist, feminist, and social reformers, oriented toward changing the American political and economic system. In 1872, the organization, by then called the National Labor Reform Party, collapsed when its chosen presidential candidate backed out of the race. -
The 1st Labor Day
Peter J. McGuire, a carpenter and labor union leader was the person who came up with the idea for Labo Day. He thought American workers should be honored with their own day. He proposed his idea to New York's Central Labor Union early in 1882, and they thought the holiday was a good idea, too. -
Haymarket Riot
A labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing. -
AFL (American Federal of Labor)
Founded on December 8, 1886 and dissolved in December 4,1955. The American Federal of Labor was one of the basic improvements for workers such as eight-hour days, higer wages, and better working conditions. The AFL can be considere a peaceful union, mainly because they wanted to avoid another Haymarket Square Riot, which proved to be thr downfall of the Knights of Labor. -
Homestead Strike
The Homestead Strike, in Homestead, Pennsylvania, pitted one of the most powerful new corporations, Carnegie Steel Company, against the nation's strongest trade union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. An 1889 strike had won the steelworkers a fororable three-year contract; but by 1892 Andrew Carnegie was determined to break the union. Henry Frick the plant manager, stepped up production demands, and when the union refused to accept the new condition, he began looking plant. -
Pullman Strike
Passed on My 11, 1894 and ended on July 20, 1894. Pullman Strike widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States. The federal government's response to the unrest market the first time that an injuction was used to break a strike. -
Thr Wagner Act
Passed on June 23, 1947. Wagner Act is the most- important piece of labour legislation enacted in the United States in the 20th century. Its main pourpose was to establsh the legal right of most workers (notably excepting agricultural and domestic workers) to organize or join labour union and to bargain collectively with their employers. -
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
The FLSA introduced the forty-hour work week, establish a national minimum wage, guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor" a term that is defined in the statute. It also set nationwide standards for employees of organizations engaged in interstate commerce, operations of a certain size, and agencies. -
Taft-Hartley
It allows the president to appoint a board of inquiry to investigate union dispute when he believes a strike would endanger national health or safety, and obtain an 80-day injuction ti stop the continuation of a strike. It forbids unions from contributing to political campaigns. The act also required union leadrs to take an oath stating that they were not communist.
