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Is There Still A Place In Modern America for Them?
Union workers
Tended to be blue collar,
craftsmen , laborors without much formal
educationWHO WERE THE FIRST
UNIONISTS?
Triangle Waist Company fire, killed many young women workers most under 18yrs old.
the government became more aware of the need for better labor regulation
All the exits were locked.
Children working in the textile mills.
A textile mill in Lawrence, Ma went on strike
Of the 30,000 workers in Lawrence half were girls and boys 8-12
Children striking 1913
The mine workers union was one of the first unions, setup to protect the workers interests.
Since then many types of unions have evolved
Cesar Chavez
Jimmy Hoffa
He was co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association in 1962 with Delores Huerta.
Hoffa was convicted of fund fraud, jury tampering and
conspiracy
The Best and Worst of Union Leadership
In Red: union workers
In Grey: non-union worker
Show Me The Money: The Real Union Difference
Some of the benefits unions have won for the Labor force
Overtime pay, Minimum wage, Fair Labor
Standards Act (FLSA) The treatment of immigrant
workers, health and retirement coverage
Civil rights Unemployment insurance and
workers' compensation Family Medical Leave Act
(FMLA) The Occupation Safety and
Health Act of 1970 (OSHA)
What is union Busting? labor consultants,
law firms, industrial psychologists, and strike management firms
Busters navigate the labor laws in order to defeat union organizing drives, to defeat strikes, or to decertify unions
$4 billion industry in the United States
Some reasons our economy has succumbed to the recession…
America is
slowly turning into a consumer based
economy
Nafta was enacted which gave protection to investors, and none
to workers NAFTA has eliminated
some 766,000 jobs in the U.S.
Only the richest 20% saw a benefit in the U.S.
The current recession has shown that we’re in this together
Our economic state has shown greed from both sides:Labor&Management
Unions serve as a protection for workers
As a limited group unions are a very good thingUnions are not something necessary, but made necessary by the mistreatment of workers