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- Labor Unions
- Conditions Leading to Organized Labor
- 1. Low Pay
- 2. Long Work Days
- 3. Unsafe Working Conditions
- 4. Dirty and Unsanitary Conditions
- Leaders of the Labor Movement
- Samuel
- Early leaders met with a great deal of resistance
- Slide 11
- Slide 12
- 1. Collective Bargaining
- When management and the Union negotiate, they do not agree
- If all attempts fail then….
- 2. STRIKE
- Strike shuts down the plant or business
- At First the Federal Government did NOT support labor unions
- Workers formed a picket line to stop “scabs” from taking their place in the factories
- Strikes are illegal for certain occupations
- Modern
- Today the focus of Unions has changed from increasing wages and benefits to job security
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