Is There Still A Place In Modern America for Them?

Union workers

Tended to be blue collar,

craftsmen , laborors without much formal

educationWHO WERE THE FIRST

UNIONISTS?

Triangle Waist Company fire, killed many young women workers most under 18yrs old.

the government became more aware of the need for better labor regulation

All the exits were locked.

Children working in the textile mills.

A textile mill in Lawrence, Ma went on strike

Of the 30,000 workers in Lawrence half were girls and boys 8-12

Children striking 1913

The mine workers union was one of the first unions, setup to protect the workers interests.

Since then many types of unions have evolved

Cesar Chavez

Jimmy Hoffa

He was co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association in 1962 with Delores Huerta.

Hoffa was convicted of fund fraud, jury tampering and

conspiracy

The Best and Worst of Union Leadership

In Red: union workers

In Grey: non-union worker

Show Me The Money: The Real Union Difference

Some of the benefits unions have won for the Labor force

Overtime pay, Minimum wage, Fair Labor

Standards Act (FLSA) The treatment of immigrant

workers, health and retirement coverage

Civil rights Unemployment insurance and

workers' compensation Family Medical Leave Act

(FMLA) The Occupation Safety and

Health Act of 1970 (OSHA)

What is union Busting? labor consultants,

law firms, industrial psychologists, and strike management firms

Busters navigate the labor laws in order to defeat union organizing drives, to defeat strikes, or to decertify unions

$4 billion industry in the United States

Some reasons our economy has succumbed to the recession…

America is

slowly turning into a consumer based

economy

Nafta was enacted which gave protection to investors, and none

to workers NAFTA has eliminated

some 766,000 jobs in the U.S.

Only the richest 20% saw a benefit in the U.S.

The current recession has shown that we’re in this together

Our economic state has shown greed from both sides:Labor&Management

Unions serve as a protection for workers

As a limited group unions are a very good thingUnions are not something necessary, but made necessary by the mistreatment of workers