Ler Chapter 2

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Knights of Labor

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Founded as secret Society, first union with national base of membership, adopted one big union philosophy, focused on social and economic reforms, moral betterment of workers and society

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Terence V. Powderly

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Leader of KOL, felt that mass production reduced employees feelings of pride and personal accomplishment, bankers and lawyers evil

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One Big Union

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Encouraged everyone of all job types and skills to join, except lawyers, bankers, etc

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Haymarket Riot

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Movement to turn workday into 8 hours, 7 police killed, violence turned public opinion against the KOL and labor movement

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American Federation Of Labor

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Formed by skilled craft unions expelled by KOL, federation of unions that independently represented a unique skilled craft of occupation.

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Samuel Gompers

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Founder AFL, dischented with KOL's leaderships long range social reform philosophy, believed goals and organization of unions should flow directly and naturally from the members needs, not from the pronouncments of top leaders who structured unions based on their views of what should have been , rather then what was

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Pure and Simpliistic Unionism

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economic betterment of organizations members, and the enhancement of the capitalistic system, which could benefit both employees and employers, workers could attain more only if capatilism flourished, labor and mgt shared similar interests

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Exclusive union Jurisdiction

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AFL believed combining members of different trades into one organization would jepordize those interests and cause unnecessary dissention, one union representing each identifible skilled craft

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Homestead Incident

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lockout of employees at steelmill, pinkertons and unionworkers clashed, mgt maintained lockout, union gained status and sympathy for cause

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Pullman Strike

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approched being the only revolutionary strike in one industry to nearly involving all industries. fed injuction forced workers to stop strike cause of fed mail,

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Industrial Workers of the world

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Formed as alternative to AFL, overthrow capatilist system by any means, believed afl sold out to capatilsim, felt employees and employers had nothing in common

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William Wild Bill Haywood

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initial orgaizer of IWW, hated captaialism

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Openshop Movement

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Employees did not have to become members of a union to get a job

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American Plan

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employers desire to adhere to the traditional american value of rugged individualsim, instead of the foreign subversive and corrupt prinicples of labor unions

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Industrial Spies

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determined which employees had pro union sentiments

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Blacklisted

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names would be given to other employers in the area who would refuse to hire anyone whos name appeared on list

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Mohawk Valley Formula

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specific steps that could be used by an employer to defeat an organizing drive or strike action by a union

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Paternailism

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mgt style in which employer is view as wise parent and employees were expected to rely upon the employer to know what to do

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Employee Representation Plan(Company Union)

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another subistute for an employee controlled independent union, employers strongly influenced, limited to single facility, did provided employees with better communication to mgt

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Sweetheart Contract

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kick back from employer to union official, employer paid union official a portion of the labor cost savings achieved

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Congress of Industralized organizations

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Split from AFL, craft workers didnt dominate, afl needed to organize production employees if they wanted an increase

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John L lewis

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First CIO president, believed future sucess of american labor movement depended on the ability to organize production workers in the fast growing mass production industries

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Sit down strike

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employees stay inside the plant instead of picketing inside

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National Labor Relations Act

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most significant reason for increased number of union members. collective bargenning public policy, many previous actions decealared illegal,

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Concession Banning

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management seeks to obtain more flexiblility in work rule modifications other labor cost reductions

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AFL CIO

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death of long time presidents of both unions, recognized infeffectiveness of union raiding, shairing common goals to influence political enviornment

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Change to Win Federation

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several national unions choose to leave AFLCIO to form new federation, fostered more emphasis on organizing new union members, spend less time and money on political parties and more on grass roots organizing