politics (2) - trade unions✊⚒️️👷

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Yellow Dog Contract

an agreement between an employee and an employer where the employee agrees not to join a labour union as a condition of employment

Haymarket Affair (1886)

• Strike for an 8-hour workday

• Protestors were subjected to beatings and threats to gain information and confessions. The police also shut down the anarchist press and cracked down on labour meetings and striker picketing. 

• The Haymarket Affair was a pivotal event in labour history, where a peaceful rally in Chicago turned violent after a bomb was thrown, leading to police retaliation and public backlash against labour movements.

Pullman Strike (1894)

A series of strikes and boycotts that took place in 1894, disrupting the nation's rail network and shaping US labour policy

Homestead Strike (1892)

The Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania discharged workers from the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers Union. A bloody confrontation ensued between the workers and the hired Pinkerton security guards, ultimately killing 16 people and causing many injuries.

Trade Union

A group of employees who join together to represent and advance their interests in the workplace

Fair Standards Act (1938)

Created the right to a minimum wage and established overtime pay regulations for certain jobs.

Knights of Labour (1869)

• Goals included an eight-hour workday, worker cooperatives, and land and monetary reform

• The first major labor organization in the United States, founded in 1869 by Uriah Smith Stephens

National Labour Relations Act (1935)

• Passed by Congress

• Encouraged collective bargaining by protecting workers' full freedom of association

Collective Bargaining

• A negotiation process between a group of employees and their employer to establish working conditions and employee rights.

• The result of these negotiations is a written contract called a collective agreement, which regulates the terms and conditions of employment.

• Helps to establish fair wages and working conditions, and promotes sound labor relations.

Monopoly

A market in which one person or company is the only supplier of a particular good or service