National Labor Relations Board

This Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charge is being filed on behalf of NFFE 1442 Local Union concerning affected NFFE, 1442 Local Union Vice President Mr. Charles Vickery due to a Letter of Reprimand that was given to him by his immediate Supervisor. The Letter of Reprimand was administered on 24 October 2017 as a result of him requesting Sick Leave and an exchange of words between him and the Supervisor that ensued. The charge is being filed to contest violations by the Immediate Supervisor,…

A strike is the most powerful weapon that Unions and employees have to convince employers to meet their demands when it comes to improved wages, working conditions and hours. Due to employees striking, employers are in some cases forced to use permanent replacement workers. Should Congress step in and outlaw the use of permanent replacements during strikes? Some are in agreement with employers stating that if they are not able to replace the striking workers they, the employer, could face…

child labor movements got the ball rolling, the continuance of the battle to abolish child labor would continue through national organizations. Shortly after the issue of child labor became public national organizations started to form. The first of such national organizations formed was the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), which was founded in 1904 by Edgar Gardner Murphy. When Murphy created the NCLC he was working closely with a Felix Adler, who was a member of the New York Child Labor…

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the fight for women’s rights, the continuation of child labor, and the unsanitary findings found within the meatpacking industry. Earlier this year, my Aunt Bessie generously awarded me one million dollars to spend on three different progressive reform groups of my choice. After deep thought and careful consideration, I have decided to divide the money between three progressive reform groups: women’s suffrage, the fight against child labor, and food safety. Furthermore, women’s suffrage is an…

convenient, cheaper, and less likely to strike. Therefore inciting the era of child labor in the United States. A man by the name of Lewis W. Hine began taking photographs of children in the workforce as a tool for social reform. Hine, along with his camera, saved children all throughout America by enabling the public to see the immorality of child labor. Hine’s photographs were, therefore, essential in the changing of child labor…

child labor was negative across. Hine’s amazing work that was produced by his talent was the face of the National Child Labor Committee and what they stood for as a community. Lewis Hine’s work was able to get the NAtional Child Labor Committee’s point across. The NAtional CHild Labor Committee was struggling to get attention brought to the subject of child labor. Both him and the National Child Labor Committee knew that they needed to incorporate a new way to fight for change. The National…

Show a child love & care, child labor is just not fair. Forms of child labor such as child slavery has existed throughout the American and human history, although child labor reached a new extreme during the Industrial Revolution. Children were being over worked, working dangerous long hours in poor factory conditions making very little money to support their families. Children were treated as slaves because they were very useful when it came to being laborers. Their little bodies allowed them…

Although children were servants throughout most of human history, child labor reached new extremes during the Industrial Revolution. The Conditions children worked in were horrific and violated human rights, these practices needed to come to an end. Nineteenth century reformers and labor organizers sought to restrict child labor and improve working conditions but, it took a huge effort to sway public opinion. Forms of child labor such as indentured servitude and child slavery have existed all…

for mine workers. She fought in the Haymarket Day demonstration, and strived for an 8 hour work day. Later on she joined the Knights of Labor, where she organized strikes against local factories. As she continued the fight for labor cruelties, she wrote an autobiography, called The Autobiography of Mother Jones, which included the conflicts of dealing with the labor movement during that time. She fought for everyone’s rights until the day she died in 1930. If Mother Jones wouldn’t have made the…