Landmark Labor Strikes
This 1886 rally in Chicago's Square turned violent and is remembered as a significant event in labor history.
What is the Haymarket Strike (Riot or Affair)
This 1963 act required equal pay for equal work, regardless of gender.
What is the Equal Pay Act?
In 2006, this city became the first city in the United States to pass a landmark piece of labor legislation called, "The Paid Sick Leave Ordinance (or Paid Sick Leave Law)" which requires employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees.
What is San Francisco?
This labor leader co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) alongside Dolores Huerta.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
What is the major labor strike that took place in the steel industry in 1919, involving thousands of workers across multiple states?
What is the Great Steel Strike?
This 1914 Keating-Owen Act act regulated working conditions for this group
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This 1969 event saw LGBTQ+ patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resist police harassment, leading to the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
What is the Stonewall Uprising?
She was a prominent labor leader and suffragist who co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Who is Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)?
What is the strike led by women garment workers in New York City in 1909-1910, advocating for better working conditions and workers' rights?
What is the Garment Workers’ Strike?
This 1935 act granted workers the legal right to organize and bargain collectively.
What is the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)?
This 1934 strike in the U.S. maritime industry was a pivotal moment for organized labor on the West Coast.
What is the West Coast Waterfront Strike?
This Irish immigrant founded the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1905
Who is Big Bill Haywood?
What is the labor strike by air traffic controllers in 1981, which resulted in the firing of thousands of federal employees by President Ronald Reagan?
What is the Air Traffic Controllers’ Strike?
This 1938 act established a minimum wage and maximum workweek, among other labor regulations.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)?
The slogan "I AM A MAN" was prominently featured in this strike, emphasizing the workers' demand for dignity and respect.
What is the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike?
The president of the largest labor union in Vermont
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