Strikes/Labor Unions

These organizations tried to improve working conditions for workers-

• Political Bosses

• Labor Unions

• Political Machines

• Farmers

A refusal to work (most successful method)

• strikes

• lockouts

• collective bargaining

• black lists

People that are not hired if they joined a union

• lockouts

• strikers

• collective bargaining

• black lists

A refusal to allow workers to work (by the owner)

• strikers

• collective bargaining

• lockouts

• arbitration

This is a VIOLENT strike between workers and owners at Carnegie's mill. (20% wage cut).

• Pullman Strike

• Homestead Strike

• Haymarket Square

Scabs are workers hired by employerss during strikes or lockouts

• True

• False

Match the following

• Oil

• George Pullman

• Steel

• J.P. Morgan

• Rail Cars & Company Towns

• Andrew Carnegie

• Banking

• John D. Rockefeller

• Railroads

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

strike of railroad workers due to wage cuts that was ended when federal troops ended the strike

• The Great Strike of 1877
• The Haymarket Affair
• The Homestead Strike
• The Pullman Strike

What did workers want when they went on strike?

• Higher wages
• Better working conditions
• Fewer hours 
• All of the above

True or False:
Strikes during the Industrial Revolution were always peaceful.

• True
• False