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6-3 Big Business and Labor Part 2

6-3 Big Business and Labor Part 2. By: Nic Klein Group Member: Dirk Johnston, Jordan Voge, and Weston Peters. Union movements diverge.

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6-3 Big Business and Labor Part 2

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  1. 6-3 Big Business and Labor Part 2 By: Nic Klein Group Member: Dirk Johnston, Jordan Voge, and Weston Peters

  2. Union movements diverge • Labor unions are organizations that workers join. They were originally formed to protect workers from being underpaid and overworked. Now a days they are used more to make sure everything is being done in the correct and same way. • There are two types of unions: • Craft unions are organized by the certain skill/ craft that each person does. • Industrial unions are where people of the same industry that do different things organize together.

  3. Craft Unionism The AFL (American Federation of Labor) led by Samuel Gompers went on strike and got salaries raised from an average of $17.50 a week to $24 and hours shortened from approximately 54.5 hours a week to 49. Industrial Unionism American Railway Union (ARU) was made up of many different unskilled and semiskilled workers within an industry. It was formed by Eugene V. Debs. They won a strike for a higher wages, but failed at other attempts to strike so the organization sort of died off. Labor Unions

  4. Labor Unions • Many other labor unions failed to strike successfully but added to the momentum of the unions organization • Industrial Workers of the World, or the Wobblies, Headed by William “Big Bill” Haywood, included miners, lumberjacks, and cannery and dock workers. Won only one strike just like the ARU, but added to the momentum of union organizations. • A union of 1,000 Japanese and Mexican workers formed the Sugar Beet and Farm Laborers’ Union of Oxnard. Also another union of Japanese and Mexican miners went on strike to be treated as well and get a high wages as the other white Caucasian miners.

  5. More Labor Unions • The great strike of 1877- Workers for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroads stopped railroad action for approximately a week. President Rutherford B. Hayes had to get involved and federal troops ended it. • On May 4th, 1886, 3,000 people protested police brutality and got a little rowdy and a bomb was thrown and killed 7 police officers and several other workers. Four leaders from the riot were hung.

  6. Industrial Labor union On strike poster

  7. Women/ Kids rights act • Mary Harris Jones- a leader towards both kids and women's rights act. She led 80 injured working kids straight to President Theodore Roosevelt's house and made a stand that started the kids rights movement. It was common to see kids get hurt working in factories

  8. Bad Working Conditions • A fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York. The company had no sprinkler system and nobody could get out because all exits but one were locked and that was blocked by the fire. Due to this terrible management 146 women died. This really struck the public that something needed to be done.

  9. Management and Government Pressure Unions • As unions started to become more powerful employers started to fear them. • Managers began being more strict with things and didn't allow union meetings, fired union members, and forced new employees to sign contracts swearing that they would not join any unions. No joining unions!!!

  10. Sources • Information: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_similaries_and_differencesbetween_a_craft_union_and_an_industrial_union\ • Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_the_United_States • Information: http://www.howstuffworks.com/labor-union.htm • Pictures: http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

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