Labor Unions & Organized Labor

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Labor Unions are and were an effort to _________________________________

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Conditions leading to organized labor:

1) ______________________________________________________________

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2) ______________________________________________________________

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3) ______________________________________________________________

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4) ______________________________________________________________

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Leaders of the movement:

___________________________ & ___________________________________

These early leaders met with _________________________________________

____________________________________________________________ From

1) ______________________________________________________________

2) ______________________________________________________________

3) ______________________________________________________________

Power of Labor Unions:

1) ___________________________________ - __________________________

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When management and the Union negotiate, __________________________

_____________________________________________________________

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2) If all negotiation attempts fail then ____________________.

* _____________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

* ____________________________________________________________

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At first, the Federal ___________________ did not _______________________

________________________________________________________________.

* Judges often ____________________________________________________

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* Workers formed a ________________________________________________

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* Strikes are ______________________________________________________

such as ________________________________________________________

** At first the average citizens opposed labor unions because they thought they were just

stirring up trouble. Most people associated unions and strikes with poor workers and

trouble makers such as

anarchists, so they did not support them.

Modern Labor Unions:

* Today the focus _________________________________________________

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* Labor changes during the _______ __________ (1930’s) Clayton Anti-trust

& Wagner Labor Relations Acts helped unions gain ________ _________rights

* Modern Problems for unions:

1) ______________________________________________________________

2) ______________________________________________________________