Trade Unions
In states that permit it, unions give their members the ability to bargain in this particular way.
What is collective bargaining?
From 1934 onwards, the AFT refused to hold any convention in a venue which enforced these segregation-era laws.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
This anti-labor law exists in all Southern States, and claims to grant workers the "________ to work."
What is Right to Work?
What is Red?
What does the B stand for in IBEW, a union called the "International ______ of Electrical Workers"
What is Brotherhood?
This city is where the American Federation of Teachers was founded.
This 1946 campaign was launched by the Congress of Industrial Organizations to unionize workers in the south, and combat Jim Crow laws.
What is Operation Dixie?
What is basketball?
The largest manufacturing union in the United States is the "_____ ______ ______", commonly abbreviated as the UAW.
United Auto Workers
In the late 1940s, the AFT played an important role in protecting teachers from "Red Scare" accusations under this American President.
Who is President Truman?
Workers of this trade famously went on strike in 1968, setting the stage for Martin Luther King's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" Speech.
What are sanitation workers?
This school district brought more than 30,000 educators to the streets during an 8 day strike in 2019.
What is the Los Angeles Unified School District?
The 1921 strike of coal miners in Logan County, West Virginia that claimed over 100 lives is remembered in history as the "Battle of _____ Mountain."
What is Blair?
The AFT is a union of this many members nationwide.
What is 1.6 million?
This year saw the largest spike in Texas union density since 1983.
What is 2017?
After the proposal of anti-labor legislation, union members in this state occupied the state capitol on Valentines Day, 2011.
What is Wisconsin?
Labor Day is a national holiday in remembrance of this famous event in American labor history.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
In the 1960s, the AFT expelled any local that did not follow the desegregation mandate of this famous supreme court case.
What is Brown vs. The Board of Education?
This strike was the largest labor stoppage in Texas before the 20th Century.
What is the Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886?
The Northwest burger chain is home to the first fast-food workers union in American history.
What is Burgerville?