Examples of labor union in the following topics:
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- During the Gilded Age, new labor unions, which used a wide variety of tactics, emerged.
- Craft-oriented labor unions, such as carpenters, printers, shoemakers, and cigar makers, grew steadily in the industrial cities after 1870.
- These unions used frequent short strikes as a method to attain control over the labor market, and fight off competing unions.
- Starting in the mid 1880s as a new group, the Knights of Labor grew rapidly.
- The new American Federation of Labor, headed by Samuel Gompers, found the solution.
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- World War I saw a change in U.S. labor: women entered the workforce as never before, and labor unions gave firm support to war efforts.
- Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and nearly all labor unions were strong supporters of the war effort.
- To keep factories running smoothly, Wilson established the National War Labor Board in 1918, which forced management to negotiate with existing unions.
- The strikes ultimately failed, forcing unions back to positions similar to those around 1910.
- Examine the new labor force of women, and the strong support of labor unions, during World War I.
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- Samuel Gompers was a labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history, founding the American Federation of Labor.
- Samuel Gompers was an English-born American cigar maker who became a labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.
- Gompers helped found the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in 1881 as a coalition of like-minded unions.
- As was the case with other unions of the day, the Cigarmaker's Union nearly collapsed in the financial crisis of 1877, in which unemployment skyrocketed and ready availability of desperate workers willing to labor for subsistence wages put pressure upon the gains in wages and shortening of hours achieved in union shops.
- He likewise fought the socialists, who believed workers and unions could never co-exist with business interests and wanted to use the labor unions to advance their more radical political causes, typified by the presidential campaigns of Eugene V.
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- The labor movement saw a period of decline during the 1920s as a result of poor leadership and anti-union sentiment.
- The policy promoted union-free "open shops," where workers would not be required to join a labor union.
- As a consequence of companies promoting the "American Plan," as well as Supreme Court decisions hostile to labor, union membership shrank from 5.1 million in 1920 to 3.6 million by 1929.
- In this way, the traditional labor unions framed Filipino organizing attempts as detrimental to white workers' wages.
- Because Filipinos were rejected by traditional labor unions, they had to form their own unions.
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- The Knights of Labor transitioned from a fraternal organization to a labor union that promoted the uplift of the workingman.
- In some cases, it acted as a labor union, negotiating with employers, but it was never well organized.
- Wright, established a secret union under the name, the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor.
- The collapse of the National Labor Union in 1873 left a vacuum for workers looking for organization.
- As membership expanded, the Knights began to function more as a labor union and less like a fraternal organization.
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- The New Deal and the economic growth during World War II greatly empowered American labor unions, which resulted in the dramatic increase of union membership.
- The act also created the National Labor Relations Board,
which was to guarantee the rights included in NLRA (as opposed to merely
negotiating labor disputes) and organize labor unions representation
elections.
- While
some agricultural labor unions existed during Roosevelt's presidency, they
organized a minuscule number of rural workers.
- Consequently, in the
context of labor legislation and labor unions discussed in this module, the
term "worker" refers mostly to industrial workers.
- The American Federation of
Labor (AFL), the largest union grouping in the contemporary United States, was
growing rapidly after 1933, reaching the membership of 3.4 million in 1936.
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- Labor
unions, or associations of workers with the purpose of consolidating bargaining
power and protecting workers' rights, grew very rapidly during World War I.
- Total labor union membership soared to 5 million
at its peak in 1919.
- After this expansion, however, radical union membership
saw a public backlash while poor union leadership combined with maneuvers by
corporations and government policies to cause a major decline in the labor
movement in the 1920s.
- Famed labor
leader Eugene V.
- Organized labor leadership weakened in the 1920s.
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- The American Federation of Labor was a coalition of national unions that proved durable enough to influence national politics.
- Unions began forming in the mid-1800s.
- The conservative Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 weakened the unions.
- Highly publicized reports of corruption in the Teamsters and other unions hurt the image of the labor movement during the 1950s.
- Private sector union membership began a steady decline that continues into the 2010s, but the membership of public sector unions has grown steadily (now 37%).
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- Particularly during World War I, cooperation between capital and labor was actively sought by both unions and the government as the best means of rationalizing and increasing American production on behalf of the war effort.
- During its first years, the AFL admitted nearly every laboring group without discrimination.
- The AFL also encouraged the formation of local labor bodies (known as central labor councils) in major metropolitan areas in which all of the affiliates could participate.
- These local labor councils acquired a great deal of influence in some cases.
- American Federation of Labor head Samuel Gompers (right) endorsed the pro-labor independent Presidential candidate Robert M.
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- The American Federation of Labor (AFL) offered more support to white men than to women and non-whites.
- In response, most women workers remained outside the labor movement.
- From the beginning, unions affiliated with the AFL found themselves in conflict when both unions claimed jurisdiction over the same groups of workers, even though neither union had made any effort to organize or bargain for those employees.
- The Knights strongly supported the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Contract Labor Law of 1885, as did many other labor groups, although the group did accept most others, including skilled and unskilled women of any profession.
- Examine the diversity of workers within the American Federation of Labor