Labor Unions in America

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Labor Unions in America

• An association or organization among workers
  designed to deal with management about wages and
  hours of work, seniority and job control and
  disputes against management
• Started to gain popularity in the 20th Century

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Labor Unions in America

• 1930s- the U.S. Governments policy toward labor
  unions was put into legislation and labor unions
  began to grow
• Businesses often tried to block the attempts of
  workers to unionize

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Labor Unions in America

• American Federation of Labor (AFL)
• Formed in 1886
• Dominant labor union in the US until 1936 when
  the Committee of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
  was formed the two later merged

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Labor Unions in America

• Major Legislation
• Norris-LaGuardia Act (1932)- prohibited many
  anti-union activities
• Wagner Act (1935)- Gave labor the right to
  organize prohibited unfair acts by management

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Labor Unions in America

• Major Legislation
• Taft-Hartley Act (1947)- Made certain unfair
  practices of unions illegal regulated the
  internal operations of unions

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Women in the Labor Market

• Estimated that 81 of all eligible women are
  currently in the workforce as opposed to 50 in
  1970
• 36 of managers and executives are now females
• 1/3 of all business school graduates are female