Labor Unions Workers react to harsh working conditions, long hours, and low pay by forming unions. Union: when a group workers works together to bargain.

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Labor Unions Workers react to harsh working conditions, long hours, and low pay by forming unions. Union: when a group workers works together to bargain with their employer Safety in Numbers Example: Is Mr. Kelly more likely to postpone a test if one person asks or most of the class asks?

The American Federation of Labor (AFL) first major national labor union gained better working conditions gained higher pay & shorter hours Became famous for using the strike: refuse to work… founded by Samuel Gompers made up of skilled workers who had belonged to national trade unions

Haymarket Riot Haymarket Square prior to the demonstration as protestors being to rally. Police respond to the protestors and a bomb goes off… The result-. In response the police spray the crowd with bullets and 10 more workers die with another 50 injured.

THE GREAT RAILROAD STRIKE OF 1877 Almost every railroad worker in the nation went on strike at the same time. Workers mad about wage cut Refused to work Ripped up track and burned cars President sent in army to break it up

Pullman Car Strike National Guard fires on Pullman Strikers Pullman Car workers built luxury passenger cars for trains Live in a company-owned town and had to buy from company-owned store Debt Slavery: Similar to plantation stores and Railroad General Stores President sends National Guard to break up strike

Homestead Steel Strike (a Carnegie Steel Plant) Carnegie brings in “scabs” or replacement workers to break the strike Carnegie hires the Pinkertons, a private army, to break the strike Finally the governor sends in troops to break up the strike