Show how labor unions protected American workers after the Great Depression with the passage of the National Labor Relations Act. Explore how teachers’ unions and strikes help protect the interests of schools and school employees, such as rallying for increased funding. Teach more about organized la...
TheAFL-CIO The craft unions were opposed to the composition of the Knights of Labor's membership, which included both skilled and unskilled laborers.In the 1890s, many of the craft unions bonded together to form theAmerican Federation of Labor(AFL). Early strikes and conflicts during this peri...
Craft (skill-based) unions came to dominate the trade-union structure and became increasingly territorial. At the same time the KOL, which had previously focused on labour-reform issues, began conducting strikes and organizing workers along industry-wide rather than craft lines, effectively performing...
Following the “Winter of Discontent” of 1978–79, when Britain suffered a series of major strikes by trade unions, the party was ousted from office by the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher. Subsequently, Labour underwent a period of considerable internal turmoil. Aided by the leaders of some...
During the 1880s, that division fatally eroded. Despite its labor reform rhetoric, the Knights of Labor attracted large numbers of workers hoping to improve their immediate conditions. As the Knights carried on strikes and organized along industrial lines, the threatened national trade unions demanded...
Synopsis: This social documentary that premiered at the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee’s convention in Chicago in May 1940 portrays life in New Castle, Pa., during the Great Depression. Unemployment and poverty transformed the town and its people as automation made its impact in the steel...
Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Drama, Immigrants/Immigration, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts Tags: Boating and Shipping The Wide Blue Road (1957) 13 Jun 103m; Italy Director: Gillo Pontecorvo Cast: Yves Montand, Alida Valli and Francisco Rabal Synopsis (IMDB): Squarciò, a fi...
Popular unrest and massive poverty during the Great Depression led to a series of landmark labor laws. The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (the Wagner Act) established the right of workers to organize and required employers to accept collective bargaining as a ruling principle in industry. ...
The Illinois Department of Labor has settled with an Illinois Trampoline park owner to enhance safety across all of the park's locations in the state.
While the notion of child labor still strikes a chord for us, for many people lucky enough to live in stable, developed countries, the concept sounds like a punch line—something too alien to comprehend. At least in the United States, child labor is almost exclusively a thing of the past...