U'S Union Membership as % of the Workforce

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U.S Union Membership as of the Workforce
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Union Membership (in millions)
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Comparative Union Membership
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Union Membership by Sector
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The Taft-Hartley Act (1948)

• 1. Allows the president to order a 60 day cooling
  off period before a strike.
• 2. Allows right to work laws
• 3. Bans the Closed Shop (Only union members
  hired)
• 4. Bans secondary strikes and sympathy boycotts..
• 5. Allows for court injunctions against mass
  picketing
• 6. Holds national unions liable for the actions
  of their members
• (such as wildcat strikes breaking a contract)
• 7. McCarthyism-hits union radicals hard (many of
  whom are, in fact, communists.) Particularly
  aimed at radicals in the CIO.

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The Wagner Act (1935)

• 1. Explicitly guaranteed the right to join a
  union
• 2. Required employers to bargain with recognized
  unions
• 3. Allowed a majority vote of employees to
  empower a union to negotiate for all employees
• 4. Created the National Labor Relations Board to
  enforce these rules and to supervise elections.

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American Exceptionalism

• 1. Working Class Divisions Immigration, Race
• 2. Liberal Culture
• 3. Early Extension of Voting Rights
• 4. No Feudalism
• 5. Voss/FantasiaEmployer/State Resistance
• Radicals crushed Knights of Labor /IWW