People
IWW organizer. Some called her "Mother."
Who is Mary Harris Jones
union was founded in 2020 for workers at the second largest private employer in the country
What is the Amazon Labor Union (ALU)-International Brothers of Teamsters (IBT)
Air traffic controllers fired by Ronald Reagan.
What is PATCO 1981 strike
A crowded unsafe workplace that became prominent in Victorian England
What is a sweatshop
Name of national baristas union and first half of "Divided we fall."
What is Starbucks Workers United we stand
Curacao-born American theorist of syndicalism
Who is Daniel de Leon
Providence and Boston affiliate of international hospitality workers' union
What is UNITE HERE Local 26
Strike at which Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot
What is Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike
First factory in North America
What is Slater Mill
What is United Auto Workers of the world unite
Co-founder of the United Farm Workers credited for coining the phrase, "si se puede"
Who is Dolores Huerta
Largest non-AFL-CIO union as of January 8, 2025
What is the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Occurred in May, 1886 when thousands of union members went on strike in Chicago because they wanted an 8 hour workday
What is Haymarket Riot
African-American socialist labor leader and German dictator
Who is A. Philip Randolph Hitler
President of the AFL-CIO in between Samuel Gompers and George Meany
Who is William B. Green
What is the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Mass exodus of enslaved African-Americans during the Civil War
What is the General Strike
1990s boss of SEIU turned AFL-CIO President and protagonist of Victorian broadway murder musical
Running mate of AFL-CIO Presidential candidate who was rival to the incumbent in 1995.
Who is Richard Trumka
full name (not acronym) of the California and Hawaii nurses union that Carlo worked for over the summer
What is the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Healthcare Professionals (UNAC/UHCP)-American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
The national AFL and local authorities collaborated to end this Pacific Northwest strike of 65,000 workers
What is the Seattle General Strike 1919
First workers to formally organize into a union in the United States
Who are shoemakers (1794)
Prerogative to have union representation present at a meeting with management and shorthand for state laws that prevent unions from representing all workers in a workplace.
Weingarten Right-to-work