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National Trades' Union formed in New York when the New York General Trades' Union solicited labor organizations from around the country to send delegates to a national convention. [8] This union was the first attempt to create a national labor federation. [6] 1834 (United States) Lowell, Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike. [6] 1834 (United States)
Its original goals were to encourage the formation of trade unions and to obtain legislation, such as prohibition of child labor, a national eight-hour workday, and exclusion of Chinese and other foreign contract workers. [33] [34] Strikes organized by labor unions became routine events by the 1880s. There were 37,000 strikes between 1881 and 1905.
Union busting is a term used by labor organizations and trade unions to describe the activities that may be undertaken by employers, their proxies, workers and in certain instances states and governments usually triggered by events such as picketing, card check, worker organizing, and strike actions. [1]
Leonard Levy went so far as to refer to Hunt as the "Magna Carta of American trade-unionism," [10] illustrating its perceived standing as the major point of divergence in the American and English legal treatment of unions which, "removed the stigma of criminality from labor organizations." [10] However, case law in American prior to Hunt was mixed.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
Throughout the history of labor in the United States, many workers have gone on strike.The Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the predecessor organizations it cites, have kept track of the number of striking workers per year since 1881.
Official website of the AFL–CIO, the largest federation of trade unions in the U.S. Official website of the Strategic Organizing Center (formerly the Change to Win Federation), the second-largest federation of trade unions in the U.S. The U.S. Labor Movement Is Popular, Prominent and Also Shrinking - The New York Times interactive (2022)
The Contentious Alliance: Trade Unions and the Labour Party (1991). online; Musson, A E. Trade Union and Social History (1974). Pelling, Henry. A history of British trade unionism (1987). Pimlott, Ben, and Chris Cook, eds Trade Unions in British Politics: The First 250 Years (2nd ed. 1991), 16 topical essays by experts; Pollard, Sidney.