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Lowell Mill Women Create First Union of Working Women
first women union. In the 1830s, half a century before the better-known mass movements for workers' rights in the United States, the Lowell mill women organized, went on strike and mobilized in politics when women couldn't even vote—and created the first union of working women in American history. -
Knights of Labor Founded
Uriah Stephens forms the Knights of Labor in Philadelphia. Initially a secret society, the Knights are able to organize workers around the country under the radar of management. They will become an important force in the early days of labor organizing. -
Atlanta's Washerwomen Strike
With the official end of slavery less than two decades before, thousands of black laundresses went on strike for higher wages, respect for their work and control over how their work was organized. In summer 1881, the laundresses took on Atlanta’s business and political establishment and gained so much support they threatened to call a general strike, which would have shut the city down. -
The Homsteead strike
The skilled workers at the steel mills in Homestead, seven miles southeast of downtown Pittsburgh, were members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers who had bargained exceptionally good wages and work rules. Homestead's management, with millionaire Andrew Carnegie as owner, was determined to lower its costs of production by breaking the union. -
The Battle of Cripple Creek
A famous little toun for its gold deposits began. and the miners that worked in the mins had to fight for their rights. -
McKees Rock Strike
Eugene V. Debs, arguably the foremost union activist in American history, described the 1909 McKees Rock, Pa., strike this way: "The greatest labor fight in all my history in the labor movement." Yet today, few remember this struggle when immigrant workers rose up and changed the course of American unionism. -
OSHA Law & Regulations
it was in this time that the government made the OSHA laws to pleest the unions for better working conditions -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
On Saturday, March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory. Firefighters arrived at the scene, but their ladders weren’t tall enough to reach the upper floors of the 10-story building. Trapped inside because the owners had locked the fire escape exit doors, workers jumped to their deaths. In a half an hour, the fire was over, and 146 of the 500 workers—mostly young women—were dead. -
FLSW Minimum wage act
this is when the union workers and the government agreed on the minimum wadge -
World war 2
the Japs bombed peral harbor. ehich started ww 2 which brought us out of the depretion and boosted our economy. all of that started up more jobs which brought the need fore unions. -
The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act
to provide standards with respect to the election of officers of labor organizations, and for other purposes to the unions
