Unions and Strikes

An organization of workers dedicated to protecting members' interests and improving wages, hours and working conditions for all.

• Labor Union

• Strikes

• Workers Rights

• bargaining

What movement led the efforts to stop child labor, give health benefits and provide aid to workers who were injured or retired?

• bargaining

• strike

• labor

• union

Factory workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company walked out in protest due to 12 hour days. The strike ended when President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops to Chicago on July 6, 1894.

• Haymarket Fair strike

• Great Southwest Railroad strike

• Pullman Strike

• Steel Strike

Negotiating as a group for better wages and working conditions

• Bargaining Collective

• Collective asking

• Collective Bargaining

• Individual Bargaining

Allowed skilled and unskilled workers to join

• American Federation of Labor

• American Federation of Unions

• Knights of Union

• Knights of Labor

What was the strike where seven police officers killed, 60 wounded; 70 in the crowd were wounded and several killed?

• Pullman Strike

• Haymarket Riot

• Homestead Strike

Only skilled laborers allowed, used strikes as a major tactic

• National Labor Union

• Knights of Labor

• American Federation of Labor

• Industrial Workers of the World

Did not believe in violence or strikes

• Knights of Labor

• American Federation of Labor

• Industrial Workers of the World

Led by Samuel Gompers

• Knights of Labor

• American Federation of Labor

• Industrial Workers of the World

Violence erupts after a bomb is thrown into a crowd of police officers

• Great Strike

• Haymarket Riot

• Homestead Strike

• Pullman Strike