Trade unions in the US fought for the rights to exist, for workers to join unions and engage in collective bargaining and strikes. Over time, some key rights were gained while public opinion turned against strikes. Various unions formed and advocated for issues like 8-hour work days, women's rights, and an end to child labor. The federal government and Supreme Court both influenced labor rights through policies, acts, and rulings over the period covered.

2. The right to join a trade union

3. The right to collective bargaining

4. The right to strike

5. Labour rights like:

6. Equality

7. Racially

8. Age

9. Gender

10. Wages

11. Conditions

13. Attempted to unify craft unions

14. Promoted working women and Blacks in the workplace (although in seperate unions)

15. Wanted 8-hour day, currency and banking reforms, end of convicted labour and immigration restrictions

16. Fell apart after a failed strike which led to a realisation for political reforms

17. Knights of Labor (KOL) 1869

18. Aimed to unite skilled and unskilled workers

19. It welcomed women and Blacks

20. Wanted 8-hour day, equal pay for women, abolition of child labour

21. Worked through reform based rather than by using strikes

22. Membership fell due to a slump in the economy (1880’s and 1900’s) and after the Haymarket Affair (1886)

23. Internal divisions led to unions to join the “Wobblies”

24. Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies)

25. More militant, using violence and sagotage

26. 1924 led to internal divisions which broke its strength

27. Molly Maguires 1873

28. American Federation of Labor (AFL) 1886

29. This replaced KOL

30. It linked all unions

31. Worked through reform and strike based methods

32. Women’s Trade Union League 1903

33. National Negro Labor Union

34. Congress of Industrial Organiszations (CIO)

35. Creation of AFL-CIO 1955

36. Coalition of Black Trade Union 1972

38. F.D Roosevelt New Deal

39. Truman Rugged individualism

40. L.B Johnson Affirmative Action

43. Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1890

44. Outlawed business trusts

45. National Industry Recovery Act (NIRA) 1933

46. Wagner Act 1935

47. Fair Labor Standards Act 1938

48. Taft-Hartley Act 1947

49. Civil Rights Act 1964

50. Economic Opportunity Act 1964

51. Age Discrimination in Employment Act 1968

53. William H. Sylvis

54. Set up the NLU in 1866

55. Thought only political reform could bring about change

56. Died suddenly which helped the NLU deminish

57. Terence Powderly

58. Preferred a non-strike position

59. Head of the KOL

60. GM and Ford

61. Carnegie and US Steel

62. Rockefellar

63. National War Labor Board

64. National Labor Relations Board

66. Violence broke out between police and strikers

67. Violence was blamed on German anarchists

68. There were high suspicions about trade unions

69. Intensified divisions between skilled and unskilled workers and immigatants

70. Homestead Strike 1892

71. Pullman Strike 1894

72. Flint Strike 1936

74. Air Traffic Controller’s Strike 1981

75. New Deal and the Flint Strike 1930’s

76. Technology 1960s/ 1970s

77. Homestead and Pullman Strikes 1892+94

79. Workers themselves

80. Federal Governmnet

81. Society/ Economy