Key Terms
History
Triangle
Weapons
Union's Today
100
Labor Unions
What is an organization of workers that seeks to improve wages and working conditions and to protect members' rights.
100
The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor
What is the first important national union?
100
Shirtwaists- women's blouses
What product did they make at the Triangle Factory in New York City?
100
Slow-down
What is it called when workers stay on the job but do their work much more slowly?
100
Going from Manufacturing to Service
What is the change in the focus of our economy?
200
Collective Bargaining
What is the process by which representatives of the unions and business try to reach an agreement about wages and working conditions.
200
American Federation of Labor
What does AFL stand for?
200
Fourteen hour days for $2/day
What is the length of the workday at Triangle, and how much did you earn per day?
200
Sit-down Strike
What is it called when workers stopped working but refused to leave the factory, so the employer could not replace them with nonunion workers
200
When a company sends it's production work to another place or country, it is called...
What is Outsourcing?
300
Boycott
What is a refusal to buy an employer's products.
300
National Labor Relations Act, or Wagner Act
What is the act passed in 1935 which required employers to bargain with unions that represented a majority of the firm's employees?
300
A cigarette
What started the fire at the Triangle?
300
Non-union workers hired to cross a picket line to replace the striking workers.
What is a "scab"?
300
China
A location of modern day sweatshops where many of our electronics are made?
400
Strike
What is workers refusing to work unless employers meet certain demands.
400
Taft-Hartley Act and Landrum-Griffin Act
What are two acts that put limits on the powers of unions and union leaders?
400
146 people, mostly teenagers
What is the number of people who died in the Triangle Fire?
400
Management refuses to let union workers enter the factory.
What is a lock-out?
400
a place where employees must work long hours for very little pay with no regard to health and safety considerations
What is a "Sweatshop"?
500
Yellow Dog Contract
What is it called when an employer forces workers to sign a contract in which the employee promises to never join the union.
500
AFL-CIO
What is the most powerful voice of organized labor in the United States today?
500
30 new laws including minimum pay and maximum hours
What was the result in terms of legislation that resulted from the Triangle Fire?
500
A list containing the names of union members and supporters which is distributed to other employers so the people on the list would not be hired.
What is a "Black-List"?
500
Happening on Friday evening?
What is the Senior Prom!!
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