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  2. Jewell Ridge Coal Corp. v. United Mine Workers of America

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    Jackson also criticized Black's alleged proposal of handing down the court's decision without waiting for the majority and dissenting opinions. Jackson claimed that Black's reasoning for this unorthodox proposal was to influence contract negotiations for the ongoing coal strike, in an attempt to strengthen the coal miner's bargaining position ...

  3. Executive Order 10988 - Wikipedia

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    Executive Order 10988. Executive Order 10988 is a United States presidential executive order issued by President John F. Kennedy on January 17, 1962 that granted federal employees the right to collective bargaining. This executive order was a breakthrough for public sector workers, who were not protected under the 1935 Wagner Act.

  4. National Labor Relations Act of 1935 - Wikipedia

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    List. The National Labor Relations Act of 1935, also known as the Wagner Act, is a foundational statute of United States labor law that guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective action such as strikes. Central to the act was a ban on company unions. [1]

  5. NLRB v. Gissel Packing Co., Inc. - Wikipedia

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    The issuance of a bargaining order is an appropriate remedy where an employer who has rejected a card majority has committed unfair labor practices which have made the holding of a fair election unlikely, or which have undermined a union's majority, caused an election to be set aside, and made the holding of a fair rerun election unlikely. Pp ...

  6. Collective bargaining - Wikipedia

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    Collective bargaining. Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights for workers. The interests of the employees are commonly presented by representatives of a trade ...

  7. Labor history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The National Labor Union (NLU), founded in 1866, was the first national labor federation in the United States. It was dissolved in 1872. The regional Order of the Knights of St. Crispin was founded in the northeast in 1867 and claimed 50,000 members by 1870, by far the largest union in the country.

  8. New York City teachers' strike of 1968 - Wikipedia

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    Albert Shanker. The New York City teachers' strike of 1968 was a months-long confrontation between the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean Hill – Brownsville neighborhoods of Brooklyn and New York City 's United Federation of Teachers. It began with a one day walkout in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district.

  9. Samuel Gompers - Wikipedia

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    Signature. Samuel Gompers (né Gumpertz; January 27, 1850 – December 13, 1924) [1] was a British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924.