Trade Union Dates 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryAmerica - 19th and 20th centuryA2/A-levelOCR Created by: SarahSib377Created on: 19-03-18 17:49 NLU (National Labour Union) 1866 - Sylvis, 500,000 members, 1869 demise, 8 hour days, cause for working women 1 of 26 KOL (Knights of Labour) 1869 - inclusive, 8 hour days, equal pay for women, X child labour, 700,000 members by 1886, Haymarket Affair X 2 of 26 AFL (American Federation of Labour) 1886 - Gompers, sought reforming legislation, over 2m members by 1914 3 of 26 Court Injunctions 19thC (esp. 1894) - against strikers 4 of 26 Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1890 - curtail power of monopolies 5 of 26 Lochner v NY 1905 - rejected setting no. hours for bakers 6 of 26 IWW / Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World) 1905 - militant, not trusted by employers / gov't, unskilled, 100,000 members 7 of 26 Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914 - limit use of court injunctions against strikers 8 of 26 Coppage v Kansas 1915 - legalised 'yellow dog' contracts 9 of 26 Adkins v Children's Hospital Case 1923 - min. wage violated due process clause 10 of 26 BSCP (Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters) Founded 1925 - Randolph, 500 members initially 11 of 26 National Industry Recovery Act 1933 - blue eagle, codes of practice 12 of 26 Wagner Act (National Labour Relations Act) 1935 - legalised unions and collective bargaining 13 of 26 Sechechter Poultry Corp v US 1935 - NRA unconstitutional, many benefits reversed 14 of 26 BSCP Recognised 1935 - recognised by Pullman, won election with company union 15 of 26 NLRB v Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp 1937 - Wagner Act constitutional 16 of 26 CIO (Congress of Industrial Organisations) 1937 - included unskilled workers, diverse, BSCP affiliated 17 of 26 Fair Labour Standards Act 1939 - set min. wage, max. hours, Xunskilled 18 of 26 Taft-Hartley Act 1947 - restrain power of unions 19 of 26 AFL-CIO Merger 1955 - 16m, more successful bargaining 20 of 26 Equal Pay Act 1963 - 'equal pay for equal work' 21 of 26 Civil Rights Act 1964 - no discrimination on basis of race, nationality, religion... 22 of 26 Economic Opportunities Act 1964 - young people, vocational skills / increase employability 23 of 26 Age Discrimination Act 1968 - X hiring/firing certain age, could not advertise for a certain age 24 of 26 Occupational Heath and Safety Act 1970 - better standards of health and safety, passed to dep't of labour 25 of 26 United Farm Workers Union (UFW) 1972 - Chavez, agricultural workers, beneficial to AA, collective bargaining est. in 1975 26 of 26
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