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Labor Unions
- Workers joined together to gain
- Better Benefits
- Better pay
- Knights of Labor -
- Allowed all workers in
- American Federation of Labor
- Started 1886
- Broke into craft unions
- AFL-CIO
- What did they do to get better wages and conditions
- Strikes- Picketing
- Sit-ins
- Violence
- Arbitrator
- 3rd party
- Unions had little wins due to
- Power to all of the owners
- Simply fired the workers
- Immigrants were up to work
- Hire strike-breakers to take place of workers on strike
- Owners would lock then out
- Could be Blacklisted
- Workers were called communists or socialists
- Some had to pledge not to join a union
- Everyone except the workers were against unions
- Labor Day-
- There were people that die from the US Army
- Passed to appease labor unions
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