Unions
All coal mines were unionized by by 2000. True or false?
What is No
The _______ protects the right to unpaid, job protected leave for family or medical reasons.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act?
The founder of the first successful farm workers union in the US
Who is Caesar Chavez?
The person prosecuted under the Sedition Act and ran for president while in prison
Who is Eugene Debs?
Samuel Gompers served as an advisor at the ______ in 1918
What is the Paris Peace Conference?
Definition of a workers union
what is an association of workers formed to protect their rights and interests?
The Wage and Hour division enforces the without regard for _______ status
What is immigration?
The First and longest serving president of the American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers
The ideology most commonly associated with workers' rights throughout history
What is Socialism/Communism?
Current federal minimum wage
What is $7.25?
Longest leader of the national coal miners union
Who is John L. Lewis
The ________ establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, and standards of labor.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The person who especially promoted competitive capitalism instead of socialism
Who is John Lewis
The start and end year of the Delano grape boycott
What are grapes?
The purpose of an I-9 form
What is showing the person has all of the criteria to work in the United States?
Year that the first coal miners union established
what is 1890?
The _____ allows non-immigrant non-agricultural workers to temporarily work in the US
What is the H-2B program?
A pioneer in advancing racial equality in the workforce
Who is Philip Randolph?
Philip Randolf founded the first _______
The _____ allows non-immigrant agricultural workers to temporarily work in the US
What is the H-2A program?
Mr Held's father was in a union. Yes and/or no.
What is Yes and no
The _____ delegates enforcement responsibility to the Wage and Hour division.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
The person who organized a worker's strike against the Great Northern Railway
Who is Eugene Debs?
Month and number of participants in the 1919 coal miner's strike.
What is November and 400,000?
The President who gave Philip Randolph the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Who is Lyndon Johnson?