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To view individual Union Made and USA Made imprinted promotional products please visit our home page, or select from the links on the left side of your screen.
The links on this page will direct you to fascinating sites that give a description of the rich history of the Labor Union Movement as well as informative current articles.
LABOR UNION HISTORY / ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Labor Unions in the United States - a brief but informative article from the Wikipedia Encyclopedia. The photo at right, taken during the Lawrence Textile strike in (1912), with armed soldiers surrounding peaceful Union demonstrators, gives us a glimpse of the incredible danger and hardships that were suffered by the early activists of the Labor movement in America. These early Union pioneers laid the foundation for the fair pay and benefits that many American working men and women enjoy today.
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Link to the history of sweat shops in America from 1820 How Unions fought to honor the American worker.
The rise of Labor Unions. During the Great Depression, unemployment was high. Many employers tried to get as much work as possible from their employees for the lowest possible wage. Trace the Labor movement back to 1648. An eclectic list of events in U.S. Labor history.
1850 - 1924 Chronology of the trade Union movement. From the Samuel Gompers papers at the University of Maryland.
Labor History Bibliography, from the Organization of American Historians.
Minority Union Bargaining - "The Blue Eagle at Work" - A book review by David Cohen. Reclaiming democratic rights in the American workplace, Cornell University Press.
This Union Cause: An illustrated history of Labor Unions in America. This pamphlet on Labor history highlights some of Labor's economic and political actions during the past 200 years. The purpose is to provide inspiration and motivation for greater participation in Union work.
A Union in every workplace. Surveys show that almost 50% of American workers want to join a Union. Yet just a bit more than 10% of those workers actually belong to one. Why?
Report on the efforts of various Unions to convince the NLRB to order employers to bargain with minority Unions. This would be a sharp departure from current practices, in which employers are required to bargain with a Union only after it shows that a majority of employees at a workplace support it.
Milestones in Wisconsin Labor Union history. The accomplishments of Wisconsin's workers and their Unions in helping to make Wisconsin a great state in which to live.
A chronology of Illinois Labor History from the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations Library.
Union activist oral histories. Veterans of Seattle's civil rights campaigns tell their stories in streaming video oral histories.
Basics of labor law.
HISTORY OF LABOR DAY The Labor Day holiday as we know it grew out of the efforts of Labor Unions over a century ago. Labor Day: How it Came About; What it Means
AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT African Americans are known to have participated in labor actions before the Civil War. In the early nineteenth century, African Americans played a dominant role in the caulking trade, and there is documentation of a strike by black caulkers at the Washington Navy Yard in 1835. The International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids was the first African American labor union chartered by the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Pullman porters, dissatisfied with their treatment by the Chicago-based Pullman Company, sought the assistance of A. Philip Randolph and others in organizing their own union, founded in New York in 1925. The new union assigned Milton P. Webster to direct its organizing in Chicago, home to the largest number of Pullman's 15,000 porters. A labor union founded by A. Philip Randolph in August 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) represented African American porters and maids who served the patrons of Pullman sleeping and dining railroad cars. Although many civil rights leaders focused on voting, education, and other governmental functions, A. Philip Randolph spent his long career as a labor leader working to bring more and better jobs to African Americans. After a long, successful battle to win representation for the nation's Pullman porters, Randolph was instrumental in the formation of the FEPC, which protected African Americans against job discrimination in the army and defense industries. In addition, Randolph cofounded and edited socialist black magazine The Messenger.
An article by a Univesity of Florida researcher states that embracing African American and other minority workers is the key to strengthining the Labor movement.
LATINOS AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT
Latinos have a strong history in Arizona's Labor Unions. For example, Cesar Chavez's revolutionary movement championed the rights of farm workers.
Essay on the Latino history of Washington State.
"Bread and Roses" exhibitions in New York which show the work of Union members.
The Latino Museum of History, Art, and Culture is the first museum in the United States dedicated to presenting the contributions of Latino culture.
Slogan used by Cesar Chavez, "Yes We Can!" On August 22, 1966, the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, later renamed the United Farm Workers of America, was formed. Under the founding leadership of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, the UFW won many labor or civil rights concessions for disenfranchised Mexican-American farmworkers, an important aspect of the Chicano movement.
Please click here to see a photo of Cesar Chavez.
WOMEN AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT
Interview with Linda Chavez-Thompson who was elected Executive Vice President of the 13-million member American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
Three letters were written by labor activist, reformer, and entrepreneur Sarah Bagley in 1846 and 1848 to Angelique Martin, a prominent reformer and champion of women's rights. This page was originally posted to UnionUSA.net on 4/16/2008.
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