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2. Timeline of labour issues and events - Wikipedia

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   Hunt was a landmark legal decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on the subject of labor unions. Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw ruled that unions were legal organizations and had the right to organize and strike. Before this decision, labor unions which attempted to 'close' or create a unionized workplace could be charged with ...

3. Labor history of the United States - Wikipedia

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   The 1920s marked a period of sharp decline for the labor movement. Union membership and activities fell sharply due to many factors including generalized economic prosperity, a lack of leadership within the movement, and anti-union sentiments from employers, governments and the general population. Labor unions were much less able to organize ...

4. American League of Colored Laborers - Wikipedia

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   Samuel Ringgold Ward (pictured c. 1855) served as the union's first president.. On June 13, 1850, [7] in response to the difficulties faced by African Americans in joining existing labor unions and as part of a wave of efforts towards black economic self-sufficiency and cooperation, [8] [9] several noted social reformers and black activists met at the Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion ...

5. American Labor Union - Wikipedia

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   The American Labor Union (ALU) was a radical labor organization launched as the Western Labor Union (WLU) in 1898. The organization was established by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in an effort to build a federation of trade unions in the aftermath of the failed Leadville Miners' Strike of 1896. The group changed its name from WLU to ...

6. Category : History of labor relations in the United States

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   Labor and Working-Class History Association; Labor Council for Latin American Advancement; Labor federation competition in the United States; Labor Heritage Foundation; Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959; Labor relations at the Santa Barbara News-Press; Labor rights in American meatpacking industry; Labor Slugger Wars

7. The Day Ronald Reagan Destroyed the American Labor Movement - AOL

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   The modern labor community has its own method of dating history. There's "Before Reagan," which covers much of the history of labor rights in the 20th century, and then there's The Day Ronald ...

8. What to know about Labor Day and its history - AOL

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   The first Labor Day celebration in the U.S. took place in New York City on Sept. 5, 1882, when some 10,000 workers marched in a parade organized by the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor.

9. Labor unions in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The Harvard Trade Union Program is currently part of a broader initiative at Harvard Law School called the Labor and Worklife Program [66] that deals with a wide variety of labor and employment issues from union pension investment funds to the effects of nanotechnology on labor markets and the workplace.