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  2. Timeline of labour issues and events - Wikipedia

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    In the Thibodaux massacre in Thibodaux, Louisiana a local militia, aided by bands of "prominent citizens," shot at least 35 unarmed black sugar workers striking to gain a dollar-per-day wage, and lynched two strike leaders. 1887 (United States) Seven of the Haymarket Riot bombing defendants sentenced to death, of which five are executed. [20]

  3. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

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    The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, often simply the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC), [2] was formed in 1881 by Peter J. McGuire and Gustav Luebkert. It has become one of the largest trade unions in the United States , and through chapters, and locals , there is international cooperation that poises the ...

  4. List of labor unions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1912 269,204 A division of LIUNA. United States Postal Service workers other than letter carriers. 2022: NPMHU: Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) 1892 190,000 Mass transit service workers. 2022: ATU: American Nurses Association (ANU) 1897 152,294 Professional association for registered nurses. ANA: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage ...

  5. International Woodworkers of America - Wikipedia

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    Empire in Wood: A History of the Carpenters' Union. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1956. Deibler, Frederick Shipp. The Amalgamated Wood Workers' International Union of America. Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin, 1912. Lembcke, Jerry and Tattam, William M. One Union in Wood: A Political History of the International Woodworkers of ...

  6. History of labor law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, minimum wage and overtime; West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937) upholding the legality of the minimum wage, reversing Adkins; United States v. Darby Lumber Co., 312 U.S. 100 (1941) held that all labor standards could be regulated consistently with the Commerce Clause, reversing Hammer

  7. Labor history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The immediate cause of the strike was the Railroad Labor Board's announcement that hourly wages for railway repair and maintenance workers would be cut by seven cents on July 1. This cut, which represented an average 12 percent wage decrease for the affected workers, prompted a shop workers vote on whether or not to strike.

  8. Laborers' International Union of North America - Wikipedia

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    LIUNA's origins stretch back to the 19th century when local construction unions began popping up across the United States. [6] Then, in March 1903, Samuel Gompers, the President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), successfully persuaded various local construction unions from across the U.S. to unite in order to consolidate power in their fight against unfair labor practices.

  9. List of strikes - Wikipedia

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    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 ...