Strike series

Pullman Strike Due to the decline in the economy in 1893 many manufacturers began to stifle the already low wages of its workers, the Pullman Palace Car Company was no different. However, the result of lowering wages did not waver the cost of rent in the Pullman company town resulting in in inraged, overworked workers. With lower income, high rent, long work days, and poor work environment the workers began to express their resentment towards the company's president, George Pullman. Though…

Henry Clay Frick was labeled as a robber baron. Frick was born to a farming family in western Pennsylvania and received little formal education (Encyclopedia of World Biography). His grandfather was a wealthy miller and distiller and Frick became bookkeeper for his grandfather's businesses at age 19 (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Frick was knowledgeable of the potential value of coking coal deposits for the developing steel industry (YourDictionary). With financial help from relatives and…

newspapers in the late 1890’s. Both of the newspapers had coverage of the Pullman Strike available to their readers. The Pullman Strike is an event in Illinois history where workers chose to walk out of their occupations due to the environment. The depression made the worker’s wages get cut by twenty-five percent. This cut was the cause of workers to have an enormous amount of stress, eventually leading to a strike against the corporation. As the public would expect, there was bias present in…

The first repercussion of the strike was the destruction of PATCO. At the beginning of the strike, a federal court impounded PATCO’s $3.5 million strike fund and another federal judge imposed fines totaling $4.75 million on the union.On AUgust fourth judge Thomas C. Platt in New York fined PATCO $100,000 per hour for defying a 1970 injunction against striking. The President of the AFL-CIO Lane Kirkland expressed outrage at Reagan, who was described as ‘union busting’ by labor leaders. It was…

The 1800s was a rough century. They had a war going on, a lot of strikes, and death. But right after the war was over people started reconstructing America. During the reconstruction there were more jobs available and there were labor unions forming to help with employment. But the labor unions didn’t really work that well because what they care about is pay, worker’s safety, and work hours The workers didn't get much of any of that. They said that their safety was terrible, they didn’t get paid…

A strike is a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer. (www.dictionary.com). The Winnipeg General Strike killed the city in a couple of hours where movement was postponed because of the lack of workers. The strike was historically significant because of its events and also because of it’s before and after effects. The following essay will demonstrate how in all of Canadian history, with…

when people go on strike, you don't have anyone to teach you or to take you to school. This is why I believe that service workers shoul not be allowed to go on strike. First off, these strikes can frustrate the public and make them dislike you and possibly leave. Secondly, there is no guarantee that the employer will meet the demands of the strike. Lastly, if you go on strike your employers has a legal right to hire replacements and put you out of work. First off, going on a strike can make the…

persuaded by corporate leaders to rule most strikes and unions illegal. In situations like the “Homestead Strike of 1892”, the “Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers” (AAISW) successful got rid of the scabs and Pinkertons who came to the steel plants in Homestead, Pennsylvania. However, because Carnegie’s right-hand man Henry C. Frick was stern with the labor unions and had connections, federal troops were ordered to come in three days after the strike broke out to disperse the union…

In 1969, teachers went on strike for the first time, establishing the beginning of a period of unrest between teachers and the city government. The three largest, most influential strikes happened in the 80s during Harold Washington’s service as Mayor of Chicago. The first strike occurred in 1983 and lasted 15 school days. Teachers demanded a 10% raise but ended up settling for a 5% raise and a 2.5% bonus. In 1984 teachers went on strike for 10 days over frustration with salaries…

Salt of the Earth was a theatrical drama directed by Herbert J. Biberman. The film was based on the actual strike against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico. Its genre is a social realism and it was based on actual events. The movie has great ties to Malcolm Gladwell’s book David and Goliath, Underdogs, Misfits, and the art of battling giants. For instance just like Martin Luther King Jr. and his friends they had to overcome a giant in Sheriff Connor (Gladwell). The setting of the plot takes…