Labor unions in the United States

World War II. After the Second World War, the USSR and the United States emerged as the major powers across the globe. During the war, these two nations were tenuously related, and they disagreed on most of the postwar plans. Consequently, after the World War II, they mistrusted each other, and their relationship continued to deteriorate because of their differing ideologies. The escalation of differences between the USSR and the United States led to the start of the Cold War in 1946. This paper…

Organized Labor’s Struggles with Human Rights and Human Dignity The history of labor organizations is vast. It involves difficult times and conquer of great achievements. Those achievements have created a path for our rights and for our dignity. American workers have an improved life today because workers got organized and fought for their rights. Organized labor were initiated in the formative years of the American nation. The colonial period had only free workers, such as family members and…

Labor Unions Are Necessary to Protect Workers Rights Introduction Good morning madam chairman, ladies and gentlemen. Today I will persuade you that labor unions are necessary to protect workers’ rights. This paper will examine how labor unions brought about changes in the work place thus protecting the rights of its workers. There four worker’s rights that I would like to expand upon. First is the 40 hour work week. Secondly is the 8 hour work day. Thirdly is the employees’…

The American Federation of Labor (AFL) has reigned as the primary labor federation to which the overwhelming majority of labor unions in the United States have historically belonged to, but this has not been without frequent contestation. Compare and contrast the AFL and 3 different competing labor organizations that we have discussed in class, including a discussion on leadership, policies, and organizing strategies (such as business unionism vs. social unionism). Use specific examples and cite…

The labor unions operate under various Acts, which were implemented by the Congress to promote their progress. The first Act was the Lloyd-LaFollette Act that encourages workers to unionize for the purpose of collective bargaining. The other one is the Clayton Act that gave the labor unions the freedom from employer injunctions. The Clayton Act also legalized some activities of labor unions. In 1935, the Wagner National Labor Relations Act was implemented. The Act gave labor unions the right to…

A labor union is an organization or wage earners that unite to promote and defend the interests of its members with respect to wages and working conditions. Labor unions first started in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1790s because of terrible working conditions. This contributed to worker strikes. A strike is a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain concession or concessions from their employer. However, employers did not like…

The history labor relations in the Pacific Northwest is long and complex story. From a regional scale to the national state, the topic of labor in the northwest has consistently changed due to influences from external events and internal unrest intertwined with racial relations and social inequalities. The significance of the history of labor relations is the influence it had on the course of history for the region and played an important role in shaping the current state and quality of…

Unions in the American Workplace ¨The number of wage and salary workers belonging to Unions, at 14.8 million in 2017, edged up by 262,000 from 2016 (Bureau of labor statistics). In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are available, the Union membership rate was 20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million union workers¨(Bureau of labor statistics). The labor movement has made a big change in the United States. The labor movement started as a protest against poor treatment of…

National Labor Relations Act The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), also known as the Wagner Act, is a Federal Law enacted by the Congress in 1935 to protect both employers and employees. It protects employees regardless of whether one is a member of a union or not. It grants them the right to form or join trade unions in order to improve their working conditions. NLRA stabilizes the employer-employee union relations (Bible, 2015). The Act also restrains certain private sector labors and…

Terence Powderly served as union leader of the Knights of Labor from 1879 to 1893. Powderly became an organizer for the Industrial Brotherhood labor union and was also accepted into the Knights of Labor. He established and led a local order of the Knight of Labor in Scranton and in 1876 became its master workman. Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) Samuel Gompers was originally part of a labor union, however he soon rose to the ranks as president of the American Federation of Labor. Gompers was…