Week of Oct. 10-14

[1Kara]

Monday: notes

1. What are labor unions and why are they important for workers?
   1. It is a union of laborers in a specific industry banding together to get better wages and conditions
   2. Power in numbers
   3. Labor unions importance
      1. Gives voice for workers 
      2. Gets better wages and conditions for workers
   4. Brought the weekend
   5. Child labor laws
   6. Overtime
   7. Minimum wage
   8. Injury protection
   9. Workmens compensation insurance
   10. Pension security 
   11. Right to organize
   12. Knights of Labor (1869): First labor union
       1. Terrance Powderly was the leader
       2. Allowed all workers of an industry to join
   13. American Federation of Labor (1866 to present)
       1. Led by Samuel Gompers
       2. Broken into "craft unions"
2. What did labor unions do to get better wages and conditions?
   1. Strikes-picketing
   2. Sit-ins
   3. Violence
3. Why did labor unions struggle to win strike in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
   1. All power was in the hands of the owner
   2. Would fire workers and hire immigrants who needed work
      1. Immigrants had it better in US factories than in Europe
   3. Would hire strikebreakers to take place of workers
   4. Would impose lockouts
   5. Would blacklist workers
   6. Workers were called communists or socialists
   7. Everyone was against labor unions/workers at first
      1. Owners, police, newspapers, government 
   8. Ex: Homestead Strike (1892)
4. Labor Day
   1. Was established as a Federal Holiday by President Grover Cleveland in 1894 after workers died at the hands of the US Army during the Pullman Strike of 1894
   2. Cleveland and Congress passed it unanimously to appease labor unions

Tuesday: watched video

Wednesday: video

Thursday: video

Friday: work day