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Great Depression - 1970's
Walton Family Income:
$1.5 Million/Hour
2007-2014:
$148.8 Billion in profit
Most Employees:
Statistics:
Union actions are everywhere:
Labor Union
"an organization of workers formed to protect the rights and interests of its members"
Unions are illegal in many countries
Ex: China
No human rights+low wages=cheap manufacturing
Source: Merriam Webster Dictionary
AFL aided workers regardless of:
Early Unions begin to form:
"National Labor Union" in 1830's
"Knights of Labor" in 1866
"American Federation of Labor"
1. Rich, Upper Class, 1% of population
2. Poor, Lower Class, remainder of population
Falling Union rates causes:
Reagan struts a "Tough" image to:
Unions became distorted and partly diminished
Reagan became a "Trend Setter"
Companies began firing and replacing strikers
End of 80's:
<17% of Americans were union
Progressive Era
By end of Progressive Era:
Reagan - First Anti-Union President
1975-1985: Union membership fell by 5 Million
Manufacturing - Union Portion fell to 25%
Unions were nearly eliminated such as:
I. History
a. Pre-Progressive Era
b. Progressive Era
c. The Great Depression-1970's
d. The "Reagan Era"
II. Present Day
III. Union Outlooks
"National Women's Trade Union League"
"National Consumers League"
Works Cited
Recall the Homestead Mill?
Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1850
aka: Pinkerton Boys
Brazile, Donna. “What Have Unions Done for Us?” Cable News Network. September 12, 2004. Accessed March 9, 2015. http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/04/opinion/brazile-unions/
Covert, Bryce. “Walmart Penalized For Closing Store Just After it Unionized.” Think Progress. June 30, 2014. Accessed March 9, 2015. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/06/30/3454511/walmart-canada-union/
“Labor Movement.” History.com. 2009. Accessed March 9, 2015. http://www.history.com/topics/labor
“Labor Unions During the Great Depression and New Deal.” Library of Congress. Accessed March 9, 2015. http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/depwwii/unions/
“Strike at the Homestead Mill: The Hated Men in Blue.” Public Broadcasting Service. Accessed March 9, 2015. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/mh_blue.html
“The Strike That Busted the Unions.” The New York Times, August 2, 2011. Accessed March 9, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/opinion/reagan-vs-patco-the-strike-that-busted-unions.html?_r=0.
“The Walton Family: America’s New Robber Barons.” The Walmart 1%. March 5, 2014. Accessed March 9, 2015. http://walmart1percent.org/how-rich-are-the-waltons/
William E. Showmaker (IBEW Union Stewart), interview by Jacob Showmaker, March 2, 2015.
“Working Women: The Women Trade Union League.” The Nation Women’s History Museum. Accessed March 9, 2015. https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/workingwomen.html
(as did the middle class)
AFL-CIO plays role in Civil Rights
Union Workers job securities:
*Walmart is founded in 1962
The Great Depression brought discontent...
Unhappy Industrial workers + "New Deal" Collective Bargaining* Legislation =
Partly due to Franklin D. Roosevelt - Strong Supporter