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After passage of the Wagner Act in 1935, the first nationally known union busting agency was Labor Relations Associates of Chicago, Inc. (LRA) founded in 1939 by Nathan Shefferman, who later in 1961 wrote The Man in the Middle, a guide to union busting, and has been considered the 'founding father' of the modern union avoidance industry. [31]
The next week, federal troops were called out to force an end to the nationwide strike. At the "Battle of the Viaduct" in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, between protesting members of the Chicago German Furniture Workers Union, now Local 1784 of the Carpenters Union, and federal troops killed 30 workers and wounded over 100.
1968 Chicago riots - One of the over 100 riots that erupted nationwide after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Most of the Chicago rioting occurred on the West Side and was the second deadliest (11 fatalities, versus 13 in the Washington D.C. riots) of the riots in the nation after King's death. 11 500 August 23–28, 1968 Political
The number of union members nationwide increased from 2016 to 2017, and some states saw union growth for the first time in several years or decades. [196] Nearly half a million workers went on strike in 2018 and 2019, the largest numbers in three decades. [197] Union growth in 2017 was primarily millennial workers.
A labour strike is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. This can include wildcat strikes, which are done without union authorisation, and slowdown strikes, where workers reduce their productivity while still carrying out minimal working duties. It is usually a response to employee grievances, such as low pay or poor ...
1910 Chicago garment workers' strike; Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911; Tampa cigar makers' strike of 1910–11; 1910 Columbus streetcar strike; Philadelphia general strike (1910) 1911 Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911; 1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers strike; Louisiana-Texas Lumber War of 1911–1912; 1912
Port Chicago mutiny: 1944 Port Chicago, California: 300–400 Lattimer massacre: 1897 Lattimer, Pennsylvania: 300-400 (~) 1914–1915 Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills strike: 1914–1915 Atlanta: 300 Collar Laundry Union strike [126] 1864 Troy, New York: 250 2022–2023 HarperCollins strike: 2022–2023 New York City: 250
After the war, following the end of wartime price controls and laxing of government regulation against union busting, the cost of living rose significantly. This led to anger among workers and subsequently large strikes. [2]: 112–113 Some notable strikes in 1919 include: 365,000 steel workers (September 22 – January 8, 1920)