logging in or signing up Labor Unions and Strikes dficker Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 2007 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: September 23, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Labor Unions & Strikes : Labor Unions & Strikes United States History Three Choices for Workers… : Three Choices for Workers… Continue in misery Join a Union and possibly get fired or even killed Become a communist and start a revolution Socialism : Socialism Public control of property & income Society should be in charge of wealth Wealth should be redistributed equally Karl Marx & Frederick Engels How to get this done? Workers revolution Could This Happen In America? : Could This Happen In America? How could this help workers? Who would be against Socialism/Communism in America? This is radical—is there something less radical that would help workers? Less Radical—Labor Unions : Less Radical—Labor Unions Unions: improve working conditions (not overthrow the system) Collective Bargaining Strikes (last resort) Best—national strike Why was this appealing to workers? Knights of Labor : Knights of Labor First important national union Wanted to organize ALL workers: skilled, unskilled and of all backgrounds Set the example: negotiate, then strike if needed Goals: 8 hour day; end of child labor Lost influence after violent strikes Other Unions : Other Unions American Federation of Labor (AFL): Smaller local unions with a national organization Wages, hours, conditions Strikes, collective bargaining Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Wobblies Socialists Wobblies View of the World : Wobblies View of the World Employers’ Reaction : Employers’ Reaction No Union Meetings Union organizers fired Blacklisting Yellow Dog contracts Would not bargain collectively Strikes met with violence The Great Strikes : The Great Strikes Haymarket Riot (1896)—8 hour workday (national strike); scabs hired in Chicago (fights); rally—bombing & gunfight: 4 anarchists hanged for murder Homestead Strike (1892)—Carnegie Steelworkers called a strike (factory cut their wages) & were fired; management sent in “private” police force (fight with deaths); strike called off Pullman Strike (1894): Company town; wages cut 25% (Panic of 1893); food prices in town NOT cut; Pullman fired three negotiators; strike; al RR traffic halted; strike ordered illegal because mail couldn’t get through Try to negotiate a labor contract (2 on each side) : Try to negotiate a labor contract (2 on each side) Activity: You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
Labor Unions and Strikes dficker Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 2007 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: September 23, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Labor Unions & Strikes : Labor Unions & Strikes United States History Three Choices for Workers… : Three Choices for Workers… Continue in misery Join a Union and possibly get fired or even killed Become a communist and start a revolution Socialism : Socialism Public control of property & income Society should be in charge of wealth Wealth should be redistributed equally Karl Marx & Frederick Engels How to get this done? Workers revolution Could This Happen In America? : Could This Happen In America? How could this help workers? Who would be against Socialism/Communism in America? This is radical—is there something less radical that would help workers? Less Radical—Labor Unions : Less Radical—Labor Unions Unions: improve working conditions (not overthrow the system) Collective Bargaining Strikes (last resort) Best—national strike Why was this appealing to workers? Knights of Labor : Knights of Labor First important national union Wanted to organize ALL workers: skilled, unskilled and of all backgrounds Set the example: negotiate, then strike if needed Goals: 8 hour day; end of child labor Lost influence after violent strikes Other Unions : Other Unions American Federation of Labor (AFL): Smaller local unions with a national organization Wages, hours, conditions Strikes, collective bargaining Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Wobblies Socialists Wobblies View of the World : Wobblies View of the World Employers’ Reaction : Employers’ Reaction No Union Meetings Union organizers fired Blacklisting Yellow Dog contracts Would not bargain collectively Strikes met with violence The Great Strikes : The Great Strikes Haymarket Riot (1896)—8 hour workday (national strike); scabs hired in Chicago (fights); rally—bombing & gunfight: 4 anarchists hanged for murder Homestead Strike (1892)—Carnegie Steelworkers called a strike (factory cut their wages) & were fired; management sent in “private” police force (fight with deaths); strike called off Pullman Strike (1894): Company town; wages cut 25% (Panic of 1893); food prices in town NOT cut; Pullman fired three negotiators; strike; al RR traffic halted; strike ordered illegal because mail couldn’t get through Try to negotiate a labor contract (2 on each side) : Try to negotiate a labor contract (2 on each side) Activity: