Ended child labor; established the 8 hour workday and minimum wage; secured paid overtime, sick leave, vacation time, & pensions; invented workplace safety regulations; won the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, making discriminatory employment practices illegal.
It resulted in the use of federal troops by the government.
Chinese Railroad men
Labor unions got better working hours and Sundays off. They didn't get better working conditions.
There were many
As a dangerous anarchist movement
because people did not have the money which theri parents had to work
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No, labor unions did not become major factors until the late 1880s and turn of the century.
The Greenback Labor party
It resulted in the use of federal troops by the government.
Chinese Railroad men
Labor unions got better working hours and Sundays off. They didn't get better working conditions.
The farm labor movement was founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez. The goal of the farm labor movement was to improve working conditions and living wage for farm hands.
Child labor increased so that industrialists saved money.
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