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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. Timeline of labor unions in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Timeline of labor unions in the United States. ... Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version;

5. 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 ...

6. Made in the USA: The evolution of American labor

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   For most Americans, Labor Day is little more than the unofficial end of summer -- a nice break from the work week that helps people recharge for the busier days ahead. It wasn't always easy though.

7. 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.

8. 30 victories for workers' rights won by organized labor over ...

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   The crowning achievement of the American union movement came in 1938 with the signing of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which guaranteed a minimum wage, an eight-hour workday, a 40-hour workweek ...

9. Communist Party USA and American labor movement (1919–1937)

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   The Communist Party USA and its allies played an important role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but wasn't successful either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda of fighting for socialism and full workers' control over industry, or in converting their influence in any particular union ...