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Historically, the rapid growth of public employee unions since the 1960s has served to mask an even more dramatic decline in private-sector union membership. At the apex of union density in the 1940s, only about 9.8% of public employees were represented by unions, while 33.9% of private, non-agricultural workers had such representation.
Unions exist to represent the interests of workers, who form the membership. Under US labor law , the National Labor Relations Act 1935 is the primary statute which gives US unions rights. The rights of members are governed by the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act 1959 .
Membership in the American Federation of Teachers, the national union of which the UFT is a part, had increased dramatically during the 1960s, as had the rate of teachers' strikes. [ 20 ] In 1964, Bayard Rustin and Reverend Milton Galamison coordinated a citywide boycott of public schools to protest de facto segregation .
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 ...
1960 1,320,000 1960 Writers Guild of America strike; 1961 1,450,000 1962 1,230,000 1962 New York City newspaper strike; 1963 941,000 1964 1,640,000 1964–1965 Scripto strike; 1965 1,550,000 1966 1,960,000 1966 New York City transit strike; Texas farm workers' strike; St. John's University strike of 1966–67; 1967 2,870,000 1967 US Railroad strike
The history of organized labor has been a specialty of scholars since the 1890s, and has produced a large amount of scholarly literature focused on the structure of organized unions. In the 1960s, the sub-field of new labor history emerged as social history was gaining popularity broadly, with a new emphasis on the history of workers, including ...
Joseph Albert "Jock" Yablonski (March 3, 1910 – December 31, 1969) was an American labor leader in the United Mine Workers in the 1950s and 1960s known for seeking reform in the union and better working conditions for miners. In 1969 he challenged Tony Boyle for the presidency of the
On July 1, 1971, five federal postal unions merged to form the American Postal Workers Union, the largest postal workers union in the world. [3] APWU was a conglomeration of previous labor unions in mail service. The NAPE’s origins from the “thirteen original colonies” compiled of college-educated African American railway mail service ...