Strike action

Most of these strikes spark everywhere and most end disastrously. Usually a strike would end once the police troops shows up and shots are fired. In the Knights of Labor’s case, the exact same situation occurred at their second railroad strike. The KOL did not believe in strikes and boycotts but educating corporations about the betterment of these changes. Their first movement was deemed a success…

Ruiz), Frank Talevera (Luis Quintero) the son, and Mary Luo Castillo (Estella Quintero) the daughter. Salt of the Earth is a powerful persuasive labor management drama. The film is made up non-professional actors that were living the real-life strike action that is shown in the film. This film was made before the women’s movement so it was a great advancement for the Mexican women, which be one of the themes of the…

Collective agreement. That’s the biggest separation between union and non-union work places. Employee’s who work under a non-unionized work environment are subject to being employed under “management conditions.” They have no legal protections about the conditions in which they were hired, so if a manager changes his/her mind about the terms and conditions of the employment your subject to those changes. Where as in a unionized work environment you have set terms and conditions in which you were…

In the year of 1934, The Great Depression was starting to affect the US.With this came a nationwide strike of the textile industry, which would become the most extensive battle the National Recovery Administration, or NRA, had to face. This seventeen day strike would become known as The National Textile Strike of 1934. Mill towns, in particular the Southern ones, were discontent, because the Depression was already affecting them by 1929. This was largely due to "stretch-out", which is…

injustice led to advocating for better conditions. Although several factors attempted to improve the lives of the American industrial workers, they ultimately resulted in worse conditions: technological change begot increased work loads; poor government actions allowed for exploitation of loopholes to dismiss the workers’ pleas; and inefficient attempts at unionization culminated in increased internal conflict among…

staple diet of most mill workers,” and meat was a luxury (Kornbluh). This cut in pay ultimately led to the worker’s decisions to strike in order to make a change in the…

films were both about miners fighting for their rights. Harlan County, USA is a documentary about the Harlan strike in Kentucky. The miners wanted to get better safety measures and pay. The Duke Power Company would not take the necessary precautions to protect the miners from unsafe conditions in the mines. Salt of the Earth focused on the Mexican miners in New Mexico who went on strike because of being treated unfairly compared to the Anglo miners. The Mexican miners wanted to get better…

employees to engage in “concerted activity,” which is when two or more employees take action for their mutual aid or protection regarding terms and conditions of employment. A single employee may also engage in protected concerted activity if he or she is acting on the authority of other employees, bringing group complaints to the employer’s attention, trying to induce group action, or seeking to prepare for group action. Who (employees) is covered under the…

Labor unions cropped up in the 1930s, which restrained employers in their behavior towards unions. Since that time, the labor law went through a cycle of encouragement and repression, starting with strong encouragement to modified encouragement coupled with regulation, and finally detailed repression. These changes were occasioned by the changing views of the Judiciary, the public, and the Congress concerning legalizing collective bargaining, which was seen as a good approach to the then…

justice they began to strike. Strikes were starting to break out frequently, so businesses took precautionary measures of their own hiring strikebreakers to break up the conflict. Many businesses and their owners assumed that the workers would eventually come to their senses. Eventually workers would get hungry, they will have to support their families somehow, and they need a job to economically survive. So many business waited around for workers to come back. The Pullman Strike is a…