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Vocabulary: define in your book

Vocabulary: define in your book. Labor Union An organization of workers united to protect and further their rights Collective Bargaining Negotiating between workers and the boss. Where the workers speak as one, with the same demands General Strike

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Vocabulary: define in your book

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  1. Vocabulary: define in your book • Labor Union • An organization of workers united to protect and further their rights • Collective Bargaining • Negotiating between workers and the boss. Where the workers speak as one, with the same demands • General Strike • A tactic of unions where they don’t work in order to gain concessions, or agreements from an employer • Sit on, sit down, picket • Arbitration • A legal process where an independent 3rd party rules on an issue between workers and boss • Child Labor • The practice of using children for manual labor • Tenement • A run down apartment building, small. Or, slum.

  2. Emergence of Unions • To protect workers from the worst abuses in business • Labor and Environmental conditions atrocious • Only way to improve conditions is through collective bargaining • Workers bargain as one voice • Gives more power to the workers • Wages, conditions, hours, compensation, safety • Uses strikes, slowdowns, boycotts, walkouts as a tactic

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