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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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